Label: Bernard Léchot's photo essay
Saint-Gobain without Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain without Saint-Gobain

The glass produced at Saint-Gobain has stood the test of time, eventually being used to clad the Louvre Pyramid in 1986. But that was the last order… Saint-Gobain then shut down the Saint-Gobain plant, triggering a social upheaval in the region. Photo essay.
At the «Coin des trois pays»

At the «Coin des trois pays»

Basel's «Dreiländereck» is an astonishing place. While the eye takes in the Rhine banks of Switzerland, France and Germany, and tourists immortalize themselves in the shadow of an unlikely spire, the docks give the city a maritime feel.
International cattle!

International cattle!

Could we imagine a «Regard Libre» focused on the rural world without featuring the ultimate Swiss icon? But Switzerland doesn’t have a monopoly on cattle. You don’t even have to go as far as India—just think of the United States! And even… Corsica, where they’re actually quite rare.
Navajo Nation

Navajo Nation

Beyond the famous sites of Monument Valley and Antelope Canyon, journey to the heart of «Navajoland», through hills and red rocks, passing through the sacred site of the Navajo capital, Window Rock, on the border of Arizona and New Mexico.
Gothic Renaissance

Gothic Renaissance

Beyond the spire currently being rebuilt, the construction site at Notre-Dame de Paris allows for strange angles and paradoxical perspectives, where Gothic stone and machine metal merge almost artistically.
A reminder

A reminder

In 1992, Zurich closed Platzspitz Park, which, in the shadow of the Swiss National Museum, had become a filthy hotbed of depravity, violence, and drug overdoses.
High vacations

High vacations

At certain times of the year, homo touristicus has a tendency, despite his good ecological resolutions, to fly off to seek the sun elsewhere. This astonishing biped sometimes seeks solitude, but more often finds itself in tightly packed flocks wading in the water of its favorite pond. Just like the phoenicopterus roseus, a partial migrant better known as the pink flamingo. Images taken at the Parc ornithologique du Pont de Gau, Camargue.
The ghosts of Camaret

The ghosts of Camaret

If the «filles de Camaret» have been immortalized in a song that's more bawdy than downright poetic, it's indeed a form of poetry - but rusty, faded, salty, abandoned - that haunts the boat graveyard at Camaret-Sur-Mer, at the end of the Crozon peninsula in Brittany's Finistère region.