Jonathan Barbot is a French photographer-author born in 1981 in Dordogne. After studying Visual Arts at the University of Bordeaux III, he embarked on photo reporting, traveled to Africa, America and discovered the journalistic universe. In 2003 he joined the ENS Louis Lumière in Paris. His graduation thesis: “The unphotographable landscape, Itinerary of an aesthetic experience” resurfaced his attraction for author photography. In the series The Quarry, devoted to a stone quarry exploited throughout the 20th century before being abandoned, then in the series The Manor, he is interested in the visual space that exists between the incessant construction work, of restoration, of decoration of the Human and that of the eternal movement - opposite - of Nature. The time scale is an essential element in his study because, in the short term, the Human seems to succeed in taming the materials and containing the elements; but over a longer period, Nature, with its own infinite endurance, ostensibly imposes its rhythm. The whole interest of this research lies in the residual energy of this friction. Jonathan Barbot's photographs point to the aura of the place to evoke a memory, stories, an imagination or just a formal harmony. The quarry is exhibited in the FNAC of France and Europe, then in the Dordogne. The manor obtained the “coup de cœur” mention from the Talent Exchange and a little later created the trigger in favor of architectural photography. In the meantime he became first assistant to fashion photographer Sophie Delaporte, then returned to live in Périgueux in 2009 to begin his freelance career. “What I like about architectural photography is this investigative work, studying this equation that has led to this, to this building or this interior like that, here, and not otherwise. What does it come out of? Links, knots, attractions, tensions, perspectives, debate what! Every day, every hour, every moment from the construction until after there is a dialogue between the work of the architect and the light, life on the site, the changing environment. The photographer's job is to find and show where the architect has succeeded in creating harmony. »Www.jonathanbarbot.com