RADES – Guillaume Blot

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 IV licenses 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 owners and regulars.
With more than 220 immersions carried out over 4 years in bars across France, the Rades series tenderly paints a panorama of portraits, details and scenes of life in these “resistant” places, now in the running to be listed as part of France’s intangible cultural heritage.

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