Gast, published by FILIGRANES in 2025, is a French-language photobook by Julien Coquentin. Its bibliographic record is deliberately spare: no synopsis or thematic statement accompanies the catalog data, leaving the work to be encountered first as a photographic book rather than as an illustrated argument. That reserve is part of its character. The title stands alone, and the volume’s identity is carried by Coquentin’s authorship, its sequence of 180 pages, and the material presence of a compact hardcover publication.

The book is notable for the precision of its format. Measuring approximately 21 × 16 × 1.5 cm, Gast occupies a modest, hand-sized scale that suits sustained, close reading. Rather than presenting itself as a large survey or a spectacular object, it belongs to the more intimate tradition of the photographic monograph, where meaning is shaped through the relation between individual images and the pace of turning pages. With no explanatory text supplied in the catalog record, the sequence itself becomes especially important: the book asks to be read through accumulation, interval, and recurrence.

For collectors, Gast deserves attention as a clearly identified 2025 publication from FILIGRANES, centered on the work of Julien Coquentin and issued in French. Its appeal lies not in an unsupported claim of rarity, but in the coherence of its bibliographic and physical profile: a dedicated author, a substantial 180-page extent, and a compact hardcover form. It is a book to approach as an authored object—one whose subject is not prepackaged by promotional description, and whose character must be discovered in the encounter between Coquentin’s photographs and the structure of the volume itself.