ALTER EGO

The grandson of an Italian immigrant, Dominique Tiberi was born in 1960 in the heart of a working-class town in a steel-making area. He keeps in him the traces of social struggles he lived in his youth. It was during this period that he began to perfect his eye through his first reflex camera by photographing workers’ movements, a camera that he also hid in his bag while going to work at the factory. Benefiting from the social lift, his steps will lead him to Nancy where he’s currently living and working, combining his teaching profession with his photographic activity. For ten years he was a photographer and consultant at the Biennale Internationale de l’Image de Nancy and occasionally acted at the Centre Image Lorraine about questions of image training. “Far from the noise of the City, its tumult, its incessant agitation and its oppressive smells, my photographic walks are as many counterpoints to the din of daily life, breaths, suspended time, moments conducive to reflection, of attention to silence. I like black, white, chromatic shades of grey for the dramatic or dreamlike expression they provide. I like the square format for the strength of composition and balance it implies. I love the soothing force of a horizon, the spiritual call of a vertical. I love these luminous moments of the fragile hours of the day, whether fleeting and light, dense and dramatic, saturated or ethereal. I finally like the solitude of the lab, the choreography of the hands under the enlarger, the texture of an exceptional paper and especially this magical moment of the latent image that finally appears under the silver prints.”