Rentos roads take the break under the eye of photographer Guillaume Blot – Liberation

Tile, white and burgundy towels, folded on the plate. Flower tablecloths. Mustard jars from Dijon Amora and Maonnaise Maille. Pickles jars. A pitcher of red. Cantine chairs with red metal frames and white back. On one of them is written « Camille », with a heart. A quarter of white on the terrace. A pizza, cheese, tomatoes, classic. A distributor of notebooks. A beautiful sauerkraut with her designed face, smile and sausage eyes, potato nose. A tuna rice salad. The half of beer. Tomatoes with their white vinaigrette. Or the dessert tray, with yogurt, clafoutis, caramel cream. I don’t know about you, but at this list, that’s it, we are hungry and we have a hell of a desire to sit for a gratin of andouillettes. With people, women, men, servers, divers, cooks, workers, drivers, eaters, happy, nostalgic, with smiling and sometimes chised faces.

Since 2018, the independent photographer Guillaume Blot, who has worked for many newspapers including Releasetravels the French departmental and national to photograph truckers, these restaurants anchored in the mythology of the macadam. After thousands and thousands of kilometers every summer in his « huddling », the nickname he gives to his car, his work is the subject of a book, which comes out this month, soberly entitled Road restaurants (1). Inspired by the British