The Eagle and the Swan

To mark the tenth anniversary of his photography residency, the theme of which is Mediterranean, the Treilles Foundation wanted to encourage a dialogue between the works of its first 28 winners and one of the authors of its residence writing, the novelist Dimitri Bortnikov. The Eagle and the Swan was born from this exchange. “This project was conceived in Treilles and born in Paris. When I was offered to write this book - I couldn't believe my ears. A man from the North... A man who has only seen the Mediterranean in his winter dreams. A Russian who has only read about the sea in books! The man of the steppes that I am… But a times in front of the photos - no doubts. I started to turn around this idea like a donkey around a temple. And this temple is the image. The photo.” - Dimitri Bortnikov on The Eagle and the Swan.