This GOOD Edition is a black and white gelatin silver print on fibre base paper
.Normand Rajotte is from Drummondville, Québec and is an active photographer since 1970s. In the early 1980s, Rajotte turned from documentary to the landscape to develop a more introspective approach focused on self-awareness and the relationship of humans with nature.
The writer Jennifer Couelle wrote about Normand Rajotte's work, "Mystery. It hovers in Normand Rajotte's images, silent, barely visible, like an enigma that wishes to remain enigmatic. And it is preserved in his landscapes, which never allow us to do more than guess. Rajotte takes pictures not so much of countrysides as of countries. What he captures on film are "little" landscapes, land that is very ordinary at first glance – sites that have gradually come to be seen as "anti-landscapes," such as fragments of nature released from the common conception of a landscape aesthetic. In both black and white and colour, Rajotte's photographs plunge us into the core of matter that survives through time, that challenges time, although it bears time’s stigmata. We do not always know what we are looking at in his works, but we certainly feel what we see. Although bathed in mystery, these photographs are not fierce; on the contrary, they are open to being approached. They give the impression of the simple observation, irrefutable, that nature is the ultimate host of our existence."
Normand Rajotte presently resides and work in Montreal. The GOOD Ediiton issued here is from his monograph "marcher sa trace" published by Les 400 coups in 2004.
