Ex Time (Signed with drawing)

Franck Landron
Ex Time (Signed with drawing)

Photographs: Franck Landron

Text: Michaël Houlette, Christine Delory-Momberger & Julie Corteville

Publisher: Contrejour

376 pages

Year: 2015

Comments: Softcover, 250 x 195 mm. First edition, 2015. Black & white photographs. Limited edition of 1250 copies. Book design remembering the Moleskine notebooks. Signed.

Write a diary but write through the eyes of someone else and recount that person's life as it unfolds on the pages before you. Watch the years go by through a collection of photographs deliberately devoid of any captions. Try and guess when the photos were taken and piece together the events partly by memory and inevitably, reconstruction. In short, tell a personal, unique story through a picture diary. The job - and indeed, it is a job, a huge one at that, when you consider the size of the archive and the vast number of photographs you have to go through - so, this second and crucial job of telling the story once you have had the time to take everything into account is not unlike film-editing. Franck Landron is no stranger to this role ; it is integral to the profession that he chose to do. He has been reconstructing stories for some time. He has also been making and producing films. His own way. (...)

Michaël Houlette