Le Grand Jeu

What do we really see when we look at the banlieue? Concrete? Tension? Style? Noise? La Vie des Blocs by Jean-Michel Landon is the result of twelve years spent walking, listening, and observing from within. Shot in black and white, built from 123 photographs and raw testimonies, it offers a patient and poetic counter-narrative to […]

What does it mean to collect what others discard? To turn street waste into visual poetry, fetish, or evidence of urban decay? Trucs is a book that shouldn’t exist—and yet, here it is. Shot and assembled by Michaël Barek, with texts by Mehdi Belhouaïchat, this 84-page object is part photo essay, part anthropological drift through […]