Twenty-four interviews between Rémi Coignet and leading figures of the contemporary field. Daido Moriyama, Anders Petersen and Lewis Baltz look back over their work and set out what they think a photographic volume should be; across the interviews a geography of the present takes shape.

“One observation lies behind these conversations. Photographers, once you get them going on their work, all have a great deal to say about it. But their voices are not heard — or heard far too little — in the press. It was tempting to go and meet those whose work inspires me.

The interviews are built on a principle: to place oneself in the position of a reporter. Thirty to forty-five minutes in which a whole career is covered. They are the point of view of a maker on his own work at a given moment, with no second thoughts. But to build a conversation you need an object, otherwise it is only chatter — starting from the books was obvious to me from the outset.” — Rémi Coignet

With Morten Andersen, Irene Attinger, Lewis Baltz, Daniel Blaufuks, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Elina Brotherus, Raphaël Dallaporta, JH Engström, Bernard Faucon, Horacio Fernández, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Rob Hornstra, Pieter Hugo, Sybren Kuiper, Jeroen Kummer and Arthur Herrman, Eva Leitolf, Ethan Levitas, Michael Mack, Lesley A. Martin, Daido Moriyama, Mathieu Pernot, Anders Petersen, Joachim Schmid and Ivan Vartanian.