{"id":803,"date":"2026-08-08T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xaviers.photo\/le-carnet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:44:36","slug":"le-carnet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/le-carnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Carnet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center xs-lede wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The monthly letter from XAVIER S.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a month, on the first Thursday, I write you a letter. Not an advertisement \u2014 a letter. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The story of a work.<\/strong> What happened behind an image: the place, the waiting, the light, what almost didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Inside the atelier.<\/strong> Baryta paper, the Picto laboratory in Paris, calibration, scouting \u2014 the quiet craft behind the prints.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>First look at new works.<\/strong> Every new photograph is shown to Le Carnet readers 48 hours before anyone else, through a private link. The first print numbers \u2014 at first-tier prices \u2014 are often taken within that window. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"xs-mentions wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One letter a month, rarely two. Never advertising, never discounts. Unsubscribe in one click \u2014 and we do not measure whether our e-mails are opened: we do not track our readers.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From Le Carnet \u2014 Cape Town Boat:<\/em> \u201cOff Cape Town, the low evening light had dissolved the horizon into a golden haze. At the centre, tiny, a cargo ship held its course \u2014 a silhouette laid upon an incandescent expanse. Without it, there would only be matter; with it, there is a crossing, a slowness, a solitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monthly letter from XAVIER S. Once a month, on the first Thursday, I write you a letter. Not an advertisement \u2014 a letter. The story of a work. What happened behind an image: the place, the waiting, the light, what almost didn\u2019t happen. Inside the atelier. Baryta paper, the Picto laboratory in Paris, calibration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-803","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.xaviers.photo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}