
Villa Mon Plaisir
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions / Festival Portraits Vichy
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 978-2-35046-476-3
- Specifications
- hardcover
170 x 247 mm
64 pages
40 colour photographs
English / French
co-produced with Festival Portraits Vichy
Ambroise Tézenas signs the sixth photographic residency, which takes on a particular resonance this year since the town, the only French one among the eleven great European spa towns selected, is putting forward its candidacy for UNESCO World Heritage listing. On this occasion the photographer presents a series of images simultaneously highlighting the town's remarkable buildings and its people. Through this project that mixes architecture, portrait and strolling, Tézenas links heritage places and lives, past and present, and offers a journey through the town that is both geographical and temporal. "When I photograph a town, I let myself be influenced neither by encounters nor by places. I remove exoticism and preconceived ideas. Here too, I track an atmosphere, a light to tell a story in about forty photos for the book."