Nothing But Home.

Nothing But Home. Photographs by Sebastien Girard. Sebastian Girard, 2009. 48 pp., illustrated throughout, 11x9".

Sébastien Girard's book 'Nothing But Home' "takes the unity of a place as its starting point: the photographer's house, his first house.

From this inaugural sign, a first book emerges.

Based on minute details detected under the rubble and within the mutating building site, Sébastien Girard builds a singular language, rescuing everyday life, where a single tool or entangled ordinary materials organize themselves into an intimate account of events."


Girard described his book "as a metaphor for beginnings and for creation. And when asked what ‘home’ means, he responded simply, 'The place where I start all of my journeys'."


'Nothing But Home' was selected as one of the Best Books of 2009 at photo-eye. You can also read a review of this book in the photo-eye magazine.


Main quote is part of the publisher's description. The quote in the last paragraph, but one, is from the photo-eye magazine review by Shane Lavalette.