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Mechanical snail

Series of 99 photographs inside a combustion engine.

12 April 2022 Benoît Labourdette  6 min
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Motor, machine, fantastic animal? Animals were our machines. Engines are contemporary forms of life, which feed us. Strange, disquieting, mysterious, hidden and yet living mechanisms.

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