2022Intervalles
120 photographs taken in the Shekhawati Desert, northeastern India
The images of Intervalles were made with the utmost simplicity of means, in a form of silent distance: walking, observing, waiting for a presence, a light, or a space to naturally emerge into the image, without staging and without any desire for exoticism.
“The great vehicle is not for us, nor the small one either, but we have carts and bicycles to meet men with men’s heads, especially when we have grown weary of gods with many heads and many arms, of their avatars and their infinite descendants.
At the back of trucks, on the sidewalks of cities, men gather in clusters and crowds, dressed in a cloth wrapped between their legs or in a long jacket and sleeveless vest, wearing a cap or a turban when they do not go bareheaded like vagabonds clothed by the sky.
It is through the low door of reality that one must enter India, like the cart that circles the village on feast days: it is the Great Bear among us, but what is the use of saying so, since everyone already knows it, even the village idiot drowned in the shadow of the banyan tree?”
— Gérard Macé
