Michel Hardy-Vallée
Membership Council
http://normandrajotte.com/comme-un-murmure/
Obvious disclaimer: I know Normand and have had some very nice exchanges with him, but I liked his work long before I met him.
Landscape photography is usually approached as a view (scape) of some entirety of land: great open vistas, mountain ranges, enveloping aspen forests, tumultuous rivers. The camera looks straight ahead, and looks wide.
However, there's as much life in a patch of mud than there is in an entire prairie, if you know how to look. Rajotte's work in the landscape has been to focus his eye below the horizon line, adopt a minimalist aesthetic, and concentrate on textures, subtle sheens, and pale contrasts.
The pictures I like the best have a quietness, an absorbing quality, as if they were swallowing you.
Coda: his landscape work is a particular turn in his recent career. Normand's first big break was in photojournalism, when he participated to a collective work on the city of Drummondville: http://normandrajotte.com/transcanadienne-sortie-109/
Obvious disclaimer: I know Normand and have had some very nice exchanges with him, but I liked his work long before I met him.
Landscape photography is usually approached as a view (scape) of some entirety of land: great open vistas, mountain ranges, enveloping aspen forests, tumultuous rivers. The camera looks straight ahead, and looks wide.
However, there's as much life in a patch of mud than there is in an entire prairie, if you know how to look. Rajotte's work in the landscape has been to focus his eye below the horizon line, adopt a minimalist aesthetic, and concentrate on textures, subtle sheens, and pale contrasts.
The pictures I like the best have a quietness, an absorbing quality, as if they were swallowing you.
Coda: his landscape work is a particular turn in his recent career. Normand's first big break was in photojournalism, when he participated to a collective work on the city of Drummondville: http://normandrajotte.com/transcanadienne-sortie-109/