Track Changes

These photographs by Arnaud Montagard could have been made decades ago.The most evident presence of the present in them is in the vitality of their love for the past, the active yearn toward what already lies behind.

Commercial signs in outmoded fonts. Old motels, diners, rural gas stations. Cars with bodies that stretch long and low like the road they were built for.

For a young Frenchman, these are adopted memories, but the color-suffused, shadow- dense framing is a native, rather than acquired tongue…
An extract from Leah Ollman’s Foreward Contributing Writer, Los Angeles Times