Jacques Gautreau

Tennessee roads hold artistic significance as the real and symbolic links between diverse ethnic and spiritual traditions ranging from the Appalachian mountains around Bristol to the Mississippi river flats around Memphis.
I am creating a body of work documenting the cultural and physical landscape of Tennessee - along its urban, suburban, and rural pathways - from the point of view of a European-born person living in Tennessee
As a French native who is also an American citizen living in Tennessee, I am constantly reshaping my own perspective of my adopted surroundings as I transition more from being a European to being an American, and by allowing the values I brought with me to be enriched or impeded by my new environment.
My photographic vision has evolved along with that experience. Meanwhile, my new country - and especially the state in which I now live - has encountered fast transformation on many fronts. I am trying to create a visual chronicle of the unique time and place in which I now travel, through the observant lens of a stranger looking at the lay of the land.

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