Jacques Berthet (born 1949 in Troinex, Switzerland, lives and works in
Geneva) began
photography
in the early 1980s, after practicing drawing and decorative arts. He is
one of the founding members of the
Centre
de la photographie Genève in 1984. His photographs are arranged
according to the principle of the series. He is interested in
landscape
transformation and the
archiving
of industrial
architectural
memory. He explores for the authorities of Geneva the transformation of
urban planning around the city. From 1989 to 1991, for the 700th
anniversary of the Swiss Confederation, he photographs in the Swiss Alps,
factories, dams and mines, remains abandoned since the last war, a work
exhibited on numerous occasions and acclaimed by critics. Since then, in
parallel with his activities as a professional photographer, he has been
developing a poetic and formal research on different types of natures,
particularly the grasses: wanderers, slope grasses, moorland or wasteland.
The results of this research have been exhibited many times in Switzerland
and Europe.
