BRITTANY with Peter Fischer

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Exploring Brittany with Peter Fischer

After at least 25 years, it was time to travel to the place where I have always found the friendliest French people.

Brittany, the largest French peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic, has a long tradition and a wonderfully rugged coastline with countless small peninsulas, capes and cliffs!

On a half-round trip, starting in the north-east, just after Mont-Saint-Michel, we went along the Emerald Coast, the Côte de Granit Rose and the Côte des Legéndes, via Saint-Malo, Morlaix, Roscoff and on to Brest. Past bizarre, sculptural boulders, sandy beaches, through small villages with many friendly details. Again and again, hydrangea bushes, long hedges, small stores with regional products and local art, colorful and humorous decoration, lovingly maintained typical Breton granite houses.

And the churches, similar at first glance, but always unique at second glance. Each church is predominantly Gothic in its own way.

From the westernmost, rocky tip, the Pointe du Raz, my random route took me via Quimper, Pont Aven (Gauguin) to Lorient in the south-west, where the Festival Interceltique de Lorient was the musical highlight of my three-week journey through “Arvorig” – land by the sea (as the Gauls called it) – Celtic music, thousands of musicians, enthusiastic dancers.

Peter Fischer, born in 1957 in Vogtland and raised in Cottbus, worked as a youth club leader and organised film festivals in Cottbus, Schwein and Saarbrücken. He has been based in Dresden since 2008 and works as a photographer. His clients include various cultural organisers, including the Czech-German Culture Days, the contemporary art exhibition Ostrale – Biennale, the Villa Augustin House of Literature, the Literatur Jetzt! festival, the Tonne jazz club… He presents his conceptual explorations in exhibitions, illustrated books and much more.

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Das Projekt wird gefördert durch das Staatsministerium für Soziales und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert mit Steuermitteln auf Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes im Rahmen des Förderprogramms »Wir für Sachsen«.