Bruno Palisson’s photographic series “A la poursuite de Raymond Depardon” presented by the magazine Chroniques d’Architecture
Transcription of the article “Bruno Palisson’s pursuit of Raymond Depardon” by Chroniques d’architecture.
“Bruno Palisson’s pursuit of Raymond Depardon”.
The photographer Bruno Palisson, who is also an architect, goes in search of time and place and, in this case, through Raymond Depardon’s Roaming, in search of a personal coherence in this place and in this time.
Alexandre Laumonier for Raymond Depardon
Roaming, an explicit and elusive term, is usually associated with movement and, strangely enough, with walking, with the idea of drifting or self-loss. Yet the main problem of roaming is precisely that of an acceptable place. The wanderer in search of an acceptable place is in an interspace. An in-between space, an in-between temporality that could be described as floating. This floating time is a time of looking back at history, in which the wanderer contemplates both the past and his immediate future. Wandering is neither a journey nor a stroll, but rather: what am I doing here?
Raymond Depardon’s Roaming
(…) Roaming, however, is not about the feeling of being, of staying somewhere, but rather about the quest for something. This wandering is to move forward, but in so doing I generate a past. There’s this search for a place, this search for being acceptable. There’s a search for self-acceptance. What was important about roaming, perhaps, was that it allowed me to live in the present for as long as possible. I often come up with ideas as I walk. I free myself by walking, I take photos, good or bad, that I often can’t take again. Because on your journey, while you’re wandering around, there’s a magnificent photo that you can’t take again. The wanderer is very aware, he sees landscapes very well, the grooves on roads, milestones, nature… This reality for a photographer is a partner, because a photographer is necessarily confronted with reality; the imaginary is quite complex to photograph (apart from the act of transformation or digital art). A photographer’s job is to betray reality. You simply have to master this betrayal, and it has to be consistent with yourself, not betray you. (…)
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His work is regularly exhibited and published, and Bruno Palisson is represented by Art Trope Gallery.
