"There are no coincidences, even on the Azimutés road. I was handing over the baton on the Millevache plateau, a few kilometers from Tarnac, a quiet little village shaken by the zeal of a worried government. It was an invitation to the coming insurrection..."
"There are no coincidences, even on the Azimutés road. I was handing over the baton on the Millevache plateau, a few kilometers from Tarnac, a quiet little village shaken by the zeal of a worried government. It was an invitation to the coming insurrection..."
Mat Jacob asserts a plural grammar of the image. This language is the fruit of multiple travels, a visceral need to question and rub shoulders with reality, and to remain free. His series Chiapas, Mexico is at the heart of a documentary and humanist work carried out over more than twenty years. It was the subject of a book in the Photo Poche collection.
For ten years, he has been experimenting with multimedia narratives for theater and the web, where documentary coexists with poetry and fiction.
In 2017, Mat Jacob left the city, moved into a mill and created Zone i, a cultural space dedicated to image and the environment on the banks of the Loir.
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