To mark the 150th anniversary of the Impressionist movement, Jonathan Bertin spent two years working between Paris and Normandy, his birthplace and the cradle of the discipline, photographing the places of his daily life, ordinary scenes, social scenes, limestone cliffs and the white waves of the Côte d’Albâtre.
This movement, which emerged in France in the last quarter of the 19th century, emphasised visual sensation and the instantaneous expression of light effects. Born partly as a result of the emergence of photography, which at the time was able to depict reality perfectly, Jonathan Bertin takes the opposite path: using photography not to freeze a moment but to give it back its movement.
Everyday life becomes a playground, and Jonathan embraces the subtlety of the ordinary, the colours and the passage of time. His approach paints a sensitive portrait of Normandy, a relationship with spaces and things that emerges like a melody.
