King of the castles
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Over a period of approximately five years journalist and photographer Frédéric Chaubin traversed Europe and shot between 250 and 300 castles in 21 different countries. The results are in his new book Stone Age, which combines historical background texts with Chaubin’s photographs, mainly shot on Linhof view cameras. His pictures showcase a selection of historical European castles, built across a period of 400 years from the feudal Middle Ages to the 15th century, which have endured to this day.
Chaubin is the former editor of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K and, in 2011, due to a growing love of combining his writing skills with photography, he produced the book CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed on the extreme architecture of the former USSR. Like Stone Age, Taschen published it.
His love of photography dates back to his childhood: ‘I had an interest in my mother’s photography with pictures of myself. The interest was connected with the fact that the picture is what remains after
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