Georges A. Bertrand is photographer, writer and art historian

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Georges A. Bertrand holds a doctorate in Lettres & Civilisations and is a former student at the Ecole du Louvre. Bertrand is a writer, art historian and photographer. His work focuses on the incessant transitions between the cultures of Europe and Asia, both in time and space. He is now particularly interested in the Hindu-Buddhist world, after a long study of the aesthetic links between the Muslim and Christian worlds.

A photographer, from Morocco to Indonesia, "of the dilution and concretion of time", according to one critic, he favors two main types of image: architectural detail, fragments of stone, metal or fabric, photographed in color, and people, photographed in black & white: either portraits or characters, the unwitting heroes of stories imagined by the photographer and, consequently, by the viewer.

For the photographer, the most important thing is to find an alliance between the lines in the image, which can be formed by the landscape, human constructions and the beings in it.

 For various aesthetic reasons, Georges A. Bertrand continues to work with film.

His main exhibitions have focused on Muslim aesthetic traces in France, portraits of people living in Gaza, and Cairo as seen from its rooftops. His photos have been exhibited in numerous museums, libraries and cultural centers in France and abroad, mainly in the Maghreb, Near and Middle East.

In 2022, he organized several events around the birth of the Belgian painter and writer Christian Dotremont, to whom he dedicated a travel and aesthetic biography, as well as a major photographic exhibition in Brussels, focusing on the poet's geographical traces. He has also given several conferences on the subject in Europe. 

He has published several works as a historian and/or photographer. He is the author, among others, of a two-volume panorama of passages between Muslim and Christian cultures from a linguistic point of view (Dictionnaire étymologique des mots français venant de l'arabe, du turc et du persan, éditions de l'Harmattan, Paris, third edition: 2019) and an aesthetic point of view (TRACES, mémoires musulmanes en coeur de France, éditions Chaman, Neuchâtel, reprint 2014).

Georges A. Bertrand loves working with other artists. His latest book, Fissures intérieures, published by Créations en Corrèze, is the result of a photographic collaboration with a Japanese author in Tokyo, with the work of one accompanying that of the other. This booklet follows others in the same vein, devoted to Gaza, Cameroon, Iran, Madagascar and Cambodian dance. In 2020, he published his first monograph, Le Silence (éditions Corridor-Elephant), featuring a number of his black & white photographs taken around the world.

Also a writer, his latest novel, Les Déracinés de la Grande Île (le Lys Bleu éditions), was the first devoted to the Malagasy riflemen during the First World War. It will soon be adapted as a comic strip. His collection of short stories from Correze, La Blessure, will be published in 2024 by L'Harmattan.

He has also published numerous academic articles on his research, in both the literary and artistic fields.

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