LA SENTE

Since 2018, near his home in the Vosges, Guillaume Greff has been tracking wolves and lynx. Tracking means finding things that aren't there, reading the landscape, making yourself accessible and porous, searching and feeling. This practice of nature involves projecting oneself outside oneself and becomes a way of preparing to cohabit with other species by spotting their ways of inhabiting the territory.

Guillaume Greff is not a wildlife photographer. The rare appearances of wolves or lynxes in these pages are the result of photographic traps: witnesses of a passage, flashes of an elusive presence. For these animals, virtuosos of the invisible, have learnt to blend into the geography, to become part of it. What La Sente's photographs reveal is not so much the animal as its mystery; a presence in the background, lurking, almost ghostly - a disquieting strangeness that haunts the landscape without ever fully revealing itself.

In this book, the images interact with a series of accounts of tracking: fragments of fieldwork, flashes of memory, suspended moments where we can guess, rather than see, the fragile weave of life.

Published as part of the Reality Check exhibition (17.05 - 22.06.2025) and produced by the Konschthal Esch for the European Month of Photography (Luxembourg).

The LA SENTE project was supported by the CNAP - Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris

Published by Konschthal Esch - Christian Mosar
Texts by Christophe Bailly and Guillaume Greff
Design by Lia Pradal
In French
112 pages
With black and white illustrations
ISBN 978-99987-715-4-3

500 copies - first edition, 2025.

Price: €30. Available from the Konschthal.