Julien Coquentin’s *Oreille coupée* (Lamaindonne, 2023) approaches the return of the wolf to France’s Massif Central through the terrain where competing forms of life meet. Rather than treating the animal as an isolated emblem of wilderness, the book enters the woodland and follows its edge—the threshold at which farming communities contend with wild animals. Its subject is therefore both ecological and social: a question of habitat, labour, perception, and coexistence.

The book’s method is investigative in the broadest sense. Landscapes and portraits are brought into relation with a notable body of cyanotypes, allowing the photographic sequence to move between observed place, human presence, and the traces of an animal whose return has altered local experience. This combination gives the work a measured, attentive character. The forest is not presented as a remote elsewhere, but as a lived and negotiated boundary.

For collectors, the book’s interest lies in this sustained encounter between photographic form and environmental inquiry. Coquentin’s sole authorship keeps the project focused, while the interplay of cyanotype, landscape, and portrait resists a single explanatory image of the wolf or the countryside. Published in French as a 152-page hardcover, the volume offers a concentrated account of a specific contemporary ecological conflict—and of the social landscape that conflict brings into view.