Thierry Girard is a photographer inscribing his name into  »the thickness of the landscape ».

In 1978, he approaches the territories of the North and of the Pas-de-Calais as an artist-surveyor at random of his meetings and his intuitions. He continued this adventure several years after, magnetized by what he discovers and transmits from the daily life and the working world. In 2017 and 2018, Thierry Girard decided to return in his footsteps in the mining basin of the North and the Pas-de-Calais, like a return to the origin of his photographic work.

The World After interweaves these visions of a disrupted territory, seized almost forty years apart by the same person, photographer turned to the  »quick of the world » who himself evolved in his own way of being there and in what he calls the way of looking, like a craftsman. The book is built on the gathering of these two lines of force (black and white with his Leica in the 80’s, colour in medium digital format now) merged into a single block transcribing the unique gaze posed on the world by Thierry Girard.