The Elders of Collioure is a body of work created in a small Catalan fishing village in the south of France.

The series center on the elders of the town, men and women, whose lives are inseparable from the rhythms of the sea, craft, and tradition.

These are not portraits of age.
They are portraits of continuity.

Fishermen, artisans, and keepers of quiet knowledge, each subject carries a lifetime of gesture and repetition. Their presence is not constructed. It is lived.

Nothing is performed. Nothing is asked.
The work emerges through attention.

Each portrait holds a sense of stillness, but beneath it, there is movement—the accumulation of years, of labor, of memory.

This series marked a decisive shift in Jérôme's practice.
A move away from directing an image, toward witnessing one.

It is here that the foundation of his work began:
to observe carefully, and to allow what is already there to reveal itself.