Baptiste Lignel

– "This is a photographic project about human emotions. In their diversity, and their extreme manifestations. I went to harvert those emotions on the finish line of the Marthon. Revealing the rawness and nakedness of those people's feelings. What i am showing here is what the stock exchange negates: people. Hence the title, "Not Wall Street".

In the object i have toyed with the very nature of the book, an object that many readers pick up and read from back to front. Therefore i thought of a book which would work similarly in both directions. A palindrome, it seems to be called...

But as we all have other things to be doing, and that, yes, 150 pages is quite a lot of pages, i have chosen a thick paper, allowing the reader in a hurry to turn the object into a flip boo, and create a very cinematic flow of images (and get it over with)."