Reissued for the first time in pocket format, the Atlas des Régions Naturelles Vol.2 is, as its name suggests, the second volume of a singular photographic adventure, as much for its size as for its duration. Launched five years ago, its objective is to document, in equal measure, the 450 natural regions or ‘lands’ constituting the territory of France.

Focusing on these small geographical and cultural entities such as Artois, Morvan or Béarn, Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier patiently and meticulously describe our ways of occupying the landscape, inhabiting it and shaping it. The roads, houses, shops, and activities, the typography of road signs, the names of villages: they seek out both the perpetual, the commonplace, and the anomalies – which, intersecting, define a physiognomy of our ways of life and our identities.

L’Atlas des Régions Naturelles Vol.2 is composed of 16 chapters, each divided into three regions followed by a theme. More than 650 images across 384 pages depict architecture as well as its relationship to the landscape.

This pocket edition contains the entire second volume, published in large format.

Chapters include: Cambrésis, Chablais, Domfrontais, Buffet à volonté, Haut Agenais, Haute Marche, Langrois, Enseignes-Objets, Médoc, Pays d’Othe, Plateau de Sainte-Maure, Non, Presqu’île guérandaise, Roussillon, Valentinois, Remises.