The sixth issue of the newspaper self publication is the first one in color!

Lately I was really interested by the old communist countries, especially for their social modernism architecture. So when I had the opportunity to go to Cuba, I couldn’t resist about the idea of doing a Newspaper about La Havane, the city of Ernest Hemingway.

In January 2020 I spent 4 days there and for the first time I shot everything only in color. I wanted to show the emptiness, the abundance of life, the wear of time
in the houses, buildings, streets, places and the constant warm light of the sun.

All the shots have benne made with a Minolta CLE ( Minolta Rokkor 40mm f2, Canon ltm 28mm f2.8 & Jupiter 9 85mm f2 ) on Kodak Gold and Lomography color Neg100.

– type: Newspaper
– format: 12 pages – 350mm x 500mm
– Printed in England
– Edition of 50 (all hand-numbered)

At first I didn’t plan to release this book publicly. It was more an experimentation with what I learned in binding from my first book TTBD. It was a birthday gift for my friend and model Elizabeth. For three years (2016-2018) we sporadically took boudoir’s photographies together.

« this part of my photographic work is the most personal, the most difficult for me to show, to disclose …. yet some of these shots are among my favorites … is it out of demureness? because it touches the intimate … the eroticism… »

The book is hand-binded on each sides to keep it closed like a secret. To open it you will have to remove the thread of one side. Each side will offer you a different reading of the book, a different start, a different composition and flow. There is no start and finish, you can read, explore it from left to right or right to left.

Recycled paper covers by Atelier Retailles.
Double sided Japanese binding.

– Type: Book
– Format: 34 pages – 182mm x 182mm
– Handmade in Canada
– Edition of 20 (all hand-numbered)

Francois Hosy is a freelance graphic designer, who started analog photography in 2016 and since then experimented with different camera, technique, and even create his own recycled handmade darkroom paper. His pictures are always a mix between architecture, still life and street photography.

Le projet de publication Sur les lieux / On Site de l’artiste Yann Pocreau a été conçu comme le troisième volet des expositions commissariées par Manon Tourigny présentées à EXPRESSION, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe du 7 novembre 2015 au 24 janvier 2016 et au MAC LAU du 21 mai au 20 août 2016.

21 x 27 cm / reliure allemande176 p., ill. coul. Français, anglais

45 $

Édition numérotée et signée : 125 $

ISBN : 978-2-922-477-34-4  (couverture rigide)