48 Page softcover 21cm x 16cm book with card wraparound cover in an edition of 350 copies. 025 - Thibaut Derien is the twenty-fifth in an ongoing Bi-Monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers. The special edition also contains a signed and numbered Giclée print (one of an edition of twenty five) Print sizes: "Automobiles" - 14.5 x 19 cm "Hotel De France" - 19 x 15 cm "Modes" - 14.5 x 19 cm About Twenty years ago, Thibaut Derien began traveling across France, avoiding major roads and soulless suburban sprawl; garish signs, prefab buildings, uniform housing estates, endless roundabouts. Instead, he sought out the last remaining small shops: abandoned, silent witnesses of forgotten trades and fashions. These empty storefronts — deserted and weathered by time —moved him. He photographed those that stirred a special kind of emotion, capturing the quiet dignity of their decay. They became the outlines of a ghost town, standing in quiet resistance to distant shopping centers and impersonal consumer hubs. In this ghost city, shutters are drawn, doors sealed, windows bricked. The facades are stripped of depth, silencing what once made these places special: human connection, community, proximity. Once a singer in the 2000s, Derien discovered photography while on tour. Today, shaped perhaps by the silence of these ghost towns, he has left music behind; trading words for images, and sound for stillness. Related Titles to 025 - Thibaut Derien 001 - Luka Khabelashvili 002 - Margaret Durow 003 - Michael McCluskey 004 - Hollie Fernando 005 - Dino Kuznik 006 - Lauren Tepfer 007 - Natalie Christensen 008 - Nick Prideaux 009 - Polly Alderton 010 - Mirko Saviane 011 - Joe Webb 012 - Oliver Takáč 013 - Delfina Carmona 014 - Teresa Freitas 015 - Summer Wagner 016 - Robin Claire Fox 017 - Joakim Möller 018 - Joshua Amirthasingh 019 - Lena Aires 020 - Fredrik Axling 021 - Merton Wu 022 - Morten Lasskogen 023 - Sara Silks 024 - Alex Kittoe
