Il sole non vede mai l'ombra

• Photographer
  Jérôme Pace
• Technical Info
  Digital Photography. Aesthetics: Reflection At The Borders Of Sepia And Photographic Grain.
• Photo Date
  2021/2022

"Il sole non vede mai l'ombra" is a cry from the heart. A prayer chanting, at the edge of my identities as a researcher and a man, a Europe gone and forgotten. That fleeting vision, almost unreal, of our European culture, I have always carried it with me; it is that memory whose tears, unexpected retreats, beat time of our enslaved breaths: first softly, then forcefully. My idea? Cross the continent by train. An odyssey – trilingual and dreamlike! – to the rediscovery of our history and our heritage; a path of oneself to get ourselves back. First stop: Hesperia!

Historian, I lived a long time at the rhythms of ancient mythologies. A rare peregrination that, having allowed me to probe our imagination, nourishes today my profession as a writer and photographer. For me, exploring the world has always been synonymous with freedom: a suspension point that breathes the exhilaration of our inner confines. I have excavated in Kurdistan Region; practiced sambo in Moscow; or harvested tea in the prefecture of Kagoshima... This wandering is who I am: it is that interrupted discourse of which the hours, echoes of my vile darkness, reveal my sauroctone soul.