Thibaut Derien

Les éditions du Petit Oiseau

J'habite une ville fantôme

25,00 €(out of print)

2015

Format 22 x 22,5 cm

96 pages

978-2955262900

Présentation

Thibaut Derien began travelling around France ten years ago, deliberately avoiding the main traffic routes and exits lined with miles of blatant signs, insipid prefabricated buildings, uniform housing estates and dizzying roundabouts, which years of negligent urban policies have imposed as the new aesthetic standards for peri-urban areas. He went in search of the rare small shops still standing but abandoned, witnesses of an era, a profession, a taste, a fashion. Deserted small shops, left to the vagaries of time, which he carefully selected from the multitude he found on his way, for the singular emotion that emanated from them, and which inspired him this ghost town, helplessly observing the animation of impersonal shopping centres, over there, in the distance. Not so far away.