Benjamin Hoffman, Au bord – On the Edge

The photographer is Benjamin Hoffman, the writer our collaborator Jean Baptiste Gauvin. The book is published by the Editions du Petit oiseau. – Jean-Jacques Naudet

At the edge of a road, at the edge of a winding road, the curve of the corpse of a fox, a pigeon, a deer, a hedgehog, a turtle, a cat … corpses met in the four corners of the world in the frantic quest for an ultimate image, in a homage of man to these stranded beasts. What is left of our ordinary passage? What trace at the hour of the afterlife? Lying bodies. Soul somewhere …

And to these images the refrain of a human who questions this dark zone. The words you need. The words that are missing. The heady music that comes back with the index of the end. What an end, finally? How to prepare and think about it? How to get there?
Unsurprising itinerary of a maze among dead animals, close friends with missing words that whisper us a last song.

Jean-Baptiste Gauvin