French Fries

Note Note Éditions presents Note Note Collection, a singular editorial project that seeks to portray those more or less recurrent obsessions that characterise a photographer’s work.For this fifth issue, Guillaume Blot celebrates a simple and universal passion – the French fries, and how its evocative taste has the power to conjure up shared memories. From fries with roast chicken on a Sunday to teenage trips to McDonald’s; from a snack at the stadium to the smell of fried food on your t-shirt; from the generous portions at roadside restaurants to the ones you munch on after a night out, fries have a place everywhere, and always have. For 10 years, Guillaume Blot has travelled up and down France to capture the popular, festive and friendly ritual that la frite always provides. True to the tenderness and curiosity he brings to capturing instances of everyday poetry, Guillaume Blot delivers another ode to those simple moments of shared joy, in which pleasure itself is collective – a sincere, almost childlike delight that is rooted in being there, with others.