Thibaut Cuisset: Loire at Jeu de Paume Tours

Thibaut Cuisset (1958–2017) was a French photographer who became famous for extensive series of landscapes that he portrayed, often returning more than once to the same region. For him, photographing meant travelling. He was especially fond of the light at noon when objects would cast close to no shadow. Cuisset was awarded with the Prix de Photographie by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2009.

The exhibition Thibaut Cuisset: Loire, for the first time, united all of his series shot in the Loire Valley, between 2001 and 2010. The assembled work was on display from November 2021 to May 2022 at the Jeu de Paume museum for photography at the castle of Tours, literally sitting above the river. A printed catalog accompanied the show.

The exhibition design was conceived of by Atelier Benoît Cannaferina, located in Paris. For the typography, Cannaferina opted for Signal, designed by Emmanuel Besse and available from Production Type. This narrow-running sans has its roots in the French road signage standard Caractères, officialized in 1946. It comes across constructed but not constructivist. The fonts used here are the Bold and Bold Italic styles, with all typesetting executed in no-nonsense ragged-right alignment. Signal is paired with Area Inktrap. The wide-running sans by Matthieu Salvaggio is the museum’s corporate typeface.