A photograph of an image of a woman with a triangular slice where her
eyes should be, a two-page aerial shot of a forest, a train coming
straight at us: Bertrand Fleuret's artist's book Landmasses and
Railways juxtaposes such enigmatic and striking black-and-white images
to create a pleasantly unsettling, difficult-to-decipher narrative.
Edited by photographer Jason Fulford, whose own influential publications
are helping to define a new generation of photobooks, this exquisitely
designed 200-page volume is dreamlike, taking us on a journey through
rural and urban landscapes, construction and decay, chaos and clarity.
Bertrand Fleuret, currently based in Berlin, was born in Versailles
in 1969. His first book, The Risk of an Early Spring, was published by
Artimo in 2004 and described thus by photo critic and publisher Darius
Himes: "From the minute you open the book, you are the eyes and mind of
Fleuret, a participant in a tightly edited stream-of-consciousness
exercise."