EXPOSITION Jacques Borgetto

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

Thus in Tibet, of which Borgetto shows serenity, daily life and spiritual, persistent traditions and approaching modernity, but where the immensity of heaven, so present in his images, seems to evoke the question of denied territory, as a form of celestial resistance.

Since 2007, he has travelled throughout Tibet many times, in the spring, winter and fall, on seven five- to six-week trips, during which he shared the daily lives 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.