May 2016
Vincent Delotte is the man of secular lands. This is not an aphorism of courtesy.
Limousin man, man also from the Moroccan highlands, the senses of the terroir constitute the framework of an important photographic work.
This work is important because, beyond the common thread born of deep empathy, of deep generosity, the gaze constructs categories, community poetry that describes the activities, the chores, the deep ties that weave societies.
These are still traditional and predominantly rural societies : lives of sowing, lambing noises, bees and markets. The faces, say much more than portraits, they say the links formed in the heart of families, clans, tribes, Exchanges. So, there are also the portraits. Beyond the infinite diversity of beings, places, even time, Vincent Delotte is in a permanent quest, never satisfied, of his contemporaries. He tears from existential time seconds to eternity and builds a proposition of deep joy, carrier in itself of another version of eternity : the one we feel in a poetic journey, honest about the human condition.
We therefore discussed the articulation between the portrait and the human. What confidence is at the base of this feed, of this booty of images almost jealously collected by Vincent Delotte ?
So the men are photographed, the children, but ... women !
We are there in the secret heart of the photographer and we are careful not to put words on a never accomplished taking of possession.. Brigitte her partner is present. She knows. She likes.
We have known each other for several years. We, The Maison de la Photographie de Marrakech with the faces of its team and the photographers who constitute its muse. Vincent Delotte, almost speechless, put down a box of pictures, little by little the link developed and it also seemed necessary to us to mark out this relation by hanging the photographic prints presented in this Limited Editions catalog. : "'Vincent Delotte, 2016’’.
The landscapes are the fabulous gift of the great Moroccan tapestry. You still have to know how to appreciate its riches.
Catalogue : Vincent Delotte – A look at the Berbers of the High Atlas