▷ 18-Tour de France 2022 11ème étape Albertville-Col du Granon. by Jérémy Lempin, 2022 | fine art print Price Cut

The Col du Galibier located at 2642 meters in the French Alps. A stele is erected in memory of the 11th stage Albertville-Col du Granon. The Col du Galibier located at 2642 meters in the French Alps. A stele is erected in memory of Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France in 1903.’Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France in 1903.

Fine Art color print.
Edition limited to 15 copies.
Each print is signed and numbered by photographer Jérémy Lempin.

Having traveled 5,693 km, Jérémy Lempin discovers and rediscovers France through a mythical race. With his van, he follows the 28 stages of the Tour de France. With his cameras and his notebook, he reflects all the joy, emotion and communion that the big loop represents, but also the questions and doubts about our society, shared by people who come to the edge of the roads.
To carry out this work, the photographer chose to use instant image cameras to formalize the ephemeral times, the fluidity and the speed of passage of the runners. The image that gradually appears on a white sheet freshly ejected by the device only acquires its final shape after five minutes. There is something regressive and magical in seeing the contours of the image form and its colors reveal themselves, like finally the appearance of the Tour de France cyclists who materialize very far in our field of vision, not very net, and which little by little take shape to become reality. The instant and the instantaneous image, the very short distance between subject and device as well as between supporters and runners, the revelation of the image as a metaphor of surprise and lightness, all these similarities contribute to his technical choice.