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KOOTENAYS
Thomas Gauthier




Sean is an old man who lives in the Canadian Rockies in a small village on the side of a mountain by the water in the Kootenays, a region named after the Kutenai First Nations people in southern Canada. He lives simply and consciously in tune with nature, he consumes little and enjoys the beauty of the place every day. Daily tasks punctuate his winter days.Far from the artificial pleasures of industrial civilization, Sean cultivates his own asceticism, based on a "happy sobriety". Ignoring the rules of our new world, his traditional way of life remains much healthier and more modern than most of his contemporaries who are trying to find a way to heal themselves.


First edition
19.20 x 26 cm
84 pages
31 images
Reliure dos carré cousu collé
Direction éditoriale et artistique : Caroline de greef et Thomas Gauthier
November 2024
ISBN 978-2-490740-11-6









Edition spéciale

Cette édition limitée est composée du livre "Les vagues" ainsi que d'un tirage signé et numéroté par Elise Toïdé.
Tirage : 13 × 18,5 cm
Baryta Hahnemühle 315g
Edition de 50.




Bio

Journées is not quite Thomas Gauthier's  first book, a carpenter by trade, he has been making his own books for a long time, as raw and sensitive as his photography is. Equipped with an old camera randomly loaded with color or black and white film, sometimes outdated, it is while walking in the street with his gaze imbued with grace that the corpus Journées by Thomas Gauthier was formed.
Thomas Gauthier's photographs question the possibilities of a poetic expression in a world producing its own ruins.

Exhibitions & awards

- Journées, Galerie Prisme (Paris)
- Photo Is:rael (Israel)
- Entre deux, Galerie Prisme (Paris)
- Festival Les Boutographies (France)
- Finalist GOMMA PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT
- Urbanautica Institute Awards (Winner)
- CNAP Soutien à la photographie documentaire contemporaine
- Meitar for exellence in photography (Shortlist)
- Athens Photo Festival (Shortlist)

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