La Péninsule de Dingle.
Irlande, Co Kerry
ce travail a fait l’objet d’un livre publié en 2012
aux Éditions La Part des anges.
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Ce parcours photographique fut guidé par des recherches géographiques portant sur le passé glaciaire de la péninsule de Dingle en Irlande, comté du Kerry. Le photographe et le géographe tente ici de révéler leur travail de perception et de compréhension face à un paysage qui résulte d’une évolution où les formes souples et lissées côtoient les versants raides et abrupts. Ainsi la carte du temps se dessine, elle enfouit les signes du passage des glaces et dissimule les anciens rivages.
Mais cette Péninsule, immense microcosme encerclé de mer, arpentée et vécue, devient rapidement le lieu de rencontres réelles et imaginaires. Traces dérisoires de l’occupation humaine, rencontres stupéfiantes de constructions énigmatiques, marches hésitantes au milieu de tourbières gorgées d’eau : une conversation en point d’interrogation s’est ainsi établie donnant à ces paysages une apparence incertaine.

Ireland, the Dingle Peninsula.
Distinctive features of a landscape

This photographic journey began at the same time as geographical research on the morphological evolution of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.
Indeed, the photographer and the geographer both try to bring to light an ongoing process of perception and appreciation of the landscape, which speaks to us in shapes and distinctive features.
This landscape, where soft and smooth shapes contrast with steep, abrupt slopes, is the result of an evolution that has been going on for millions of years. As one studies these open spaces, signs become obvious like seamarks outlining the map of time. Looking like a bas-relief carved with slopes, the landscape blots out the marks left by the ice age and conceals the former shores. As it sweeps across these scenes, our eye picks up a lot of significant details and is charmed by shapes, colours and views that these pictures bring back to life.

At the same time, this peninsula, a vast microcosm surrounded by the sea, where people have travelled and lived for so long, soon becomes for the observer a place of real and imaginary meetings. Legends whispered inside a warm pub, strange encounters with enigmatic structures, hesitant steps through peat bogs saturated with water, reminders of John Millington Synge’s writings: a conversation full of question marks thus gets under way, lending these landscapes an indistinct appearance.