« I renounced this white ocean, If deserted in appearance but in reality so inhabited ”notes Christophe Jacrot from his experience on the island. Iceland, which is also nicknamed the land of fire and ice, is confronted with seasonal contrasts: dressed in green expanses in summer and covered with snow (Snjór, in Icelandic) in winter, made of glaciers and active volcanoes, overlooked by midnight suns and lunchtime moons, rich in biodiversity and large infrastructure …
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The sound of silence
Browse the country through this book, It is to start an immersive experience in the Far North. Over the pages, you shiver under a parade of more dizzying landscapes than each other. We hallucinate in front of disconcerting and silent, almost abstract panoramas.
Rocks: Blues of blue frozen, ultra-graphic water, compose a lunar landscape in a glacial lagoon. Christophe Jacrot./courtesy of Editions du Chêne
Skills with impressionist paintings aspects Or from charcoal sketches, we remain hypnotized in front of the thirty-seven chiaroscuro photographs which shape the work, accentuated by the omnipresence of the humidity of this country of ice.
Like a snow panther, Photographer Christophe Jacrot infiltrates the field and, by his striking images of realism, awakens the senses. At the center of these ghostly and legendary spaces, as lonely, timidly stand small houses with red shutters, tiny white chapels, Icelandic ponies, silhouettes strove of the inhabitants of a village, telephone boxes …
-The white road crisscrosses between the mountains, its route marked by stakes to signal it by strong snow. Christophe Jacrot./courtesy of Editions du Chêne
It’s the head in the stars Let we imagine this region of the Arctic Circle with lunar landscapes, still covered with an immaculate coat in winter. It even seems to us to perceive the noise of the steps of Christophe Jacrot in the snow …
> Snjór, by Christophe Jacrot, Éditions du Chêne, 70 p., 60 €.
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