Through the ground glass of the view camera, travelling photographer Eric Dessert captures the force of elements in place, their suspended, moving balance: rock, sea, trees and air. On the island of Port-Cros he catches and captures these unstable instants, measures scale, points to the horizon; his photographs, like engravings, reveal the grain of things, their texture, scratches, scuffs, tears, needles and twigs, bark, the smooth folds of water, black, white and above all an infinity of greys writing the extreme fineness of light and matter and underlining each "geographism", admirably composed and balanced framings expressing stability, permanence and harmony as well as the fragility of these places, the fruit of a commission from the Conservatoire du Littoral, the national body tasked with safeguarding coastal and lakeside natural spaces of biological or scenic interest.