Le Carnet de XAVIER S.

Each first Thursday of the month, I send you a letter. Not an advertisement — a letter.

The story of a work. What happened behind an image: the place, the waiting, the light, what almost didn’t happen.

Inside the atelier. Baryta paper, the Picto laboratory in Paris, calibration, scouting — the quiet craft behind the prints.

First look at new works. Every new photograph is offered to Le Carnet readers 48 hours before its public release, through a private link. The first print numbers — at first-tier prices — are often taken within that window.

One letter a month, rarely two. Never advertising. You can unsubscribe at any time in one click — and we do not measure whether our e-mails are opened: we do not track our readers.