La Lune de Payne

In 2015, Ljubisa Danilovic published Le Désert russe (The Russian Desert), published by Lamaindonne. The book, hailed by the public and critics, is now out of print. Three years later, La Lune de Payne, his new publication, shows a radically different facet of the photographer's work.

Ljubisa Danilovic has made several trips to the Danube Delta in recent years and with this book she offers us a surprising and delicate portrait of this place. A land of sky and water where time seems to slow down, where the heart begins to beat more quietly and the mind calms down. Photographs as close as possible to the subject, without any frills, which go to the essential. The wide palette of gray of the photographs gives them a great softness and a certain melancholy. A series of a beautiful artistic mastery...