The Salon PhotoDoc. 2025 for Independent Photographers takes place from October 8th to 11th at the Hôtel de l’Industrie in Paris’s 6th arrondissement.
We have chosen to showcase Jacques Farine‘s exhibition entitled « Les paysages GPS » (Initiated and produced since 1980), which he presents as follows:
For many years, the SNCF( french train company) exhibited four black and white photographs in each compartment of its passenger cars. Housed in a metal frame 20 x 26 cm (or 29 x 32 cm, depending on the case), the SNCF showcased French tourist attractions by presenting landscapes and monuments from all of France’s metropolitan regions.
Today, the speed of human activity, both in its movements and in its development, hinders the contemplation of landscapes. Perception is fleeting: fragments of movement, a succession of retinal persistence that transforms each window into a screen on which a vision reduced to its haste scrolls by
. The identity of anonymous places, spaces intermediate between urban and rural, clumsily occupied by human activity, are reduced to GPS coordinates.
Another series, « Les Paysages furtifs » (Initiated and produced since 2013), is presented as follows:
The train allows for a deep and original penetration of the territories it crosses.
It offers a wide range of typologies: urban, rural, residential, industrial, agricultural, wild or abandoned intermediate spaces, all subject to the vagaries of the weather and externalities due to human activity. Through movement and speed, the train unfolds an image whose true measure is not always fully grasped.
Through a continuous inversion effect, movement acts as a bridge and creates incessant back-and-forths between the real panorama, the natural landscape, and the depicted landscape, as if each of these perceptions constituted successive layers and endowed the image with density and depth. In the exercise of landscape-making from the train, the frame as a constitutive element of the landscape has not disappeared; it has changed status to unfold in space. It has moved from delimiting the perimeter of the image to that of its volume.
Jacques Farine
www.jacques-farine.fr
instagram.com/jacfarine
Salon PhotoDoc. des photographes indépendants
October 8–11, 2025
Opening: October 8, 6 p.m.–10 p.m.
L’Hôtel de l’Industrie
4 place Saint-Germain-des-Près
75006 Paris
https://photodocparis.com/salon-2025
