Gestes Gitans

Gestes Gitans – At the age of 17, Jeanne Taris discovered photography. But she worked without sorting, printing or showing anything. She captures raw moments with atypical men and women with whom she forges strong relationships. In 2015, when she was spotted at a Leica meeting, she began a second life: sharing her work through long-term series, always in immersion. From the Ivory Coast to the gypsy quarter of Perpignan, Jeanne Taris builds step by sensitive step the story of moments in other people’s homes, drawing a larger fresco.

They’re there, but are they even there? They are the Gypsies, the little people of the shadowy neighborhoods, and it is in the shadow of this shadow that their society flourishes. Hidden, inevitably, put there by them, who don’t want to be seen, by us, who don’t want to see them, by an invisible wall crossed by Jeanne Taris. The photographer’s shots of them are neither the indecent exaltation of some curious thrill-seeker, nor the moral condemnation of a way of life that’s too different.

Prix Escourbiac – Fondation des Treilles: The aim of this prize, born of the meeting between these two institutions from the world of images, is to support the publication of a photographic book on the theme of the Mediterranean. Gestes gitans is the second title in this collection.