Thibaut Cuisset France, 1958-2017

"Softness, clarity, precision, invitation to contemplation. These are the tools of Thibaut Cuisset to attract the eye." 

Thibaut Cuisset’s photographic work unfolds in successive campaigns and, each time, a different country is the subject of the series. In these campaigns, which are generally quite long, where the location is gradually diluted in the shot, no room is left for improvisation or the accidental, and all the more so since we are at the antipodes of reportage: a country is not the terrain of a news story that should be covered, nor that of a network of clues that should be captured, but a set of landscapes where the type is slowly revealed, through fixed scenes that are like so many hiding places. Turkey, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Iceland, the Loire Valley, and I forget a few, have been visited and explored in this way. […]

Jean-Christophe Bailly