Georges Bartoli (1957) - Saint-Jacques, Perpignan 1980






Over 35 years' experience; former gallery owner and Museum Folkwang curator.
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Saint-Jacques
Images of the Saint-Jacques neighborhood in the heart of the city of Perpignan where a large Gypsy community lives. Perpignan, March 1980
THE PEOPLE, LIFE, WORK BY GEORGES BARTOLI
Georges Bartoli offers us here a few glimpses of a life spent observing the world.
He has approached people, drawn by their gestures, their trades, by the way they inhabit their daily lives.
moments of humanity captured in their apparent banality, similar across eras and geographies.
THE AUTHOR
Originating from Matemale, in the Catalan Pyrenees, Georges Bartoli divides his time between his native village and the terrains of the world where women and men work, struggle, or try to rebuild their lives.
After several years in regional press (Midi Libre, L’Indépendant), he turned to social photojournalism, in France and abroad.
He collaborates with L’Humanité, the AFP, REA, then with Reuters and Maxppp, before becoming fully independent.
His work mainly focuses on social struggles, the world of work, anti-globalization, peasantry, as well as on territories such as Palestine or Venezuela.
Seller's Story
Saint-Jacques
Images of the Saint-Jacques neighborhood in the heart of the city of Perpignan where a large Gypsy community lives. Perpignan, March 1980
THE PEOPLE, LIFE, WORK BY GEORGES BARTOLI
Georges Bartoli offers us here a few glimpses of a life spent observing the world.
He has approached people, drawn by their gestures, their trades, by the way they inhabit their daily lives.
moments of humanity captured in their apparent banality, similar across eras and geographies.
THE AUTHOR
Originating from Matemale, in the Catalan Pyrenees, Georges Bartoli divides his time between his native village and the terrains of the world where women and men work, struggle, or try to rebuild their lives.
After several years in regional press (Midi Libre, L’Indépendant), he turned to social photojournalism, in France and abroad.
He collaborates with L’Humanité, the AFP, REA, then with Reuters and Maxppp, before becoming fully independent.
His work mainly focuses on social struggles, the world of work, anti-globalization, peasantry, as well as on territories such as Palestine or Venezuela.
