Taking its name from the slang used to affectionately describe a neighborhood bar, Guillaume Blot’s Rades flashes and exposes life in French bistros, today’s “disappearing spaces”. While there were over 200,000 troquets in France in the 1960s, the number of licenses IV has since plummeted to barely 40,000 today.

Rather than documenting these closures, Guillaume Blot chooses to show the half-raised rather than lowered curtains of these colorful establishments, warmly animated by their proprietors and regulars.
With more than 220 immersions carried out over 4 years in bars across France, the “Rades” series tenderly draws up a panorama of portraits, details and scenes of life in these “resistant” places.

See you Thursday May 11 from 6pm for the launch of “Rades” and a book signing with photographer Guillaume Blot!