Jacques Borgetto

"So close to heaven, Tibet"

CHARLES NEGRO MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

February 15 to May 26, 2020

Travel is often the source of Jacques Borgetto's photographic work. While drawing on the classical genres of portraiture and landscape, he takes a fresh look at unsung lands and civilizations and manages to deliver an intimate vision.

Thus in Tibet, whose serenity, daily and spiritual, persistent traditions and approaching modernity, but where the vastness of the sky, so present in his images, seems to evoke the question of denied territory, as a form of celestial resistance.

Since 2007, he has travelled through Tibet many times, in the spring, winter and fall, on seven trips lasting five to six weeks, during which he shared the daily life of highland nomads and monks.

If these trips have always been a spiritual experience for him, they have also allowed him to discover an exceptional people, now threatened in his identity.