I Spent 10 Years Travelling In Search Of Abandoned Pianos To Make This Book

Drawn to forgotten places, photographer Romain Thiery has been transforming abandoned places into his own personal playgrounds. As a trained pianist, he placed his passion for the instrument at the center of his photography series, ” Requiem pour Pianos”.

His book recounts his 10 years travelling throughout Europe in search of forgotten pianos, ravaged by the merciless passage of time but never ending to impose their nobility. A book in his image that combines his passion for piano and photography.

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Romain Thiery, born in Bergerac in 1988, is an artist photographer and amateur pianist living and working near Montpellier, France.

Romain Thiery believes that the piano is deeply rooted in the depths of our culture, and has sought́ to explore the instrument from an original angle. He made it his mission to combine his two greatest passions and set out to find buildings where old pianos are left to decay. Since 2014, he has discovered more than a hundred pianos around the world, in as many places of stunning beautý. Scenes from which he never changes anything, leaving the place as it is. "Even in the midst of a degraded space, the piano never ceases to retain its power...