This monograph is a set of small constructions born from the harvest of a playful poaching: objects without qualities, pieces of cardboard adorned with sputtering materials, rusty wires; the surfaces are sometimes embellished with writing, plans and hermetic diagrams meant to inform about their design. The horizon of a flat, oily sea indicates the vanishing line and foils a notion of perspective too well anchored in our plastic stereotypes. Laurent Millet reinvents in his compositions the status of landscape: neither décor nor subject, but both at once. Cultivating the art of the calotype, fragmenting photography and using complex assemblages of negatives, his practice lies between staging and unposed pictures. Millet lives in landscapes where water, earth and sky merge, on the edge of the Gironde estuary, where he has made his territory. The calotype is a process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841; it yields a direct paper negative and thus the possibility of reproducing positive images by simple contact printing.