IJM on the Streets — Nantes (eBook)

Nantes — a decade of sitting down with a camera.

There is a way you are supposed to do street photography. Move fast, stay invisible, hunt the decisive moment. After ten years of photographing one French city, I can report that almost none of it applies to me.

This is the other method. Find the spot. Order the coffee. Let the place come to you.

Nine chapters through the streets, squares, and gardens of Nantes — the Place du Bouffay at night, the empty Cafés Richard espresso cup, the café above the weir at the Chaussée des Moines, two seasons at the Jardin Extraordinaire, a year of patience outside the cathedral, and the Île de Nantes with a seven-year-old and her Olympus Trip 35. The book is also about good shoes, good cake, and why the coffee is not a break from the work. The coffee is the work.

Shot on film between 2016 and 2026 — Ilford HP5+, Pan 100, Kentmere 400, Rollei RPX 400, and AGFA APX 100 — developed at home in the kitchen, imperfections kept in.

• PDF eBook, 30+ black and white film photographs
• Nine chapters: the full argument for inhabiting rather than hunting
• Instant download

On est bien là.