The fifth edition of the Carte Blanche PMU has just been published by Filigranes. With a preface by Agnès Desarthe, the work features a selection of photographs taken by Léa Habourdin and Thibault Brunet last summer as part of their project about gamblers in Pas-de-Calais in northern France. Entitled Les Immobiles, the series wii be on display through January 25th at Le BAL in Paris.
Although it has always been part of our landscape, the PMU Café calls to mind a distant and vaguely abstract world embodied by scattered images gleaned over the years: smoke-filled rooms filled with a few busy regulars, the names of horses called out like abstract aphorisms, people lining up at the counters…
