Ground Level

Over the past twenty-five years, Bertrand Carrière has created a highly personal body of photographic work. His poetic images attempt to give a voice to mute things, to places that disappear. Bertrand Carrière's photographic work is characterized by the availability of the gaze, a search for the intimate, and a constant ability to conjure up resistant signs from the visible. His research unfolds in series around memory, history and a close relationship with cinema. His work has been exhibited in Quebec, Canada and Europe. He has already published four books of his photographs with Editions 400 coups: Témoin de l'ombre : photographies de tournage (1995), Voyage à Domicile (1997), Signes de jour (2002) and Dieppe : paysages et installations (2006). In July 2002, he created a vast photographic installation, Jubilee, in which he posed 913 portraits on the beach at Dieppe, France. In 2004, he made 913, a documentary film on the same subject. In 2005, he received the Prix de la création en région du CALQ for the Montérégie region. He is currently working on Lieux Mêmes, a series of landscapes around sites linked to the 1914-1918 war. He has taught photography at Montreal's Cégep André Laurendeau since 1992. Born in Ottawa in 1957, he lives in Longueuil. Bertrand Carrière's work is represented in Montreal by Galerie Simon Blais, in Toronto by Stephen Bulger Gallery and distributed by Agence VU in Paris.