Chemin d'art sacré : Jean-Jacques Delattre

‘You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavour, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.’ Matthew 5:13-14

Jean-Jacques Delattre took his first photographs in 1974. Fifty years spent seeking out that which trembles before fading away. 

In December 2025, he arrived in Lebanon to undertake Snoezelen training – an approach that teaches one to reconnect with one’s senses, to be fully present in the here and now. It was an epiphany: not a revelation from elsewhere, but a return to the essence of his craft – truly looking, letting things come. There he met the family of his soul brother. He felt something akin to adoption.

He holds on to that word: it expresses better than anything else the nature of what is conveyed when one opens one’s eyes defencelessly. This is what his images speak of. Of impermanence – those fragile moments when something reveals itself and then fades away. Of light on a face. Of what passes, of what remains despite everything, of what is given. A work on the threshold, perhaps. Like a prayer without words. 

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