With its fluorescent orange cover and quasi-academic title printed in sharp typography, this book makes a striking statement. The images in the interior are made up of a collection of forty objects collected by photographer Joel Harder in a piece of woodland in the Ardèche region and placed under an A4 format scanner. The publication as a whole gives off a feel of police photos and voyeurism; associations reinforced by the title, which emphasises that the objects were found in a piece of woodland used by homosexual men for secret assignations. The reader is brought up very close to the remnants of these meetings, such as torn condom wrappers and empty cigarette packs. The associative way in which the images have been ordered cause one double-take after another – what is that wooden sculpture doing there? –allowing us as viewers to construct our own narratives. At the same time, the book – like its title – has a sense of almost academic objectivity. Which is then deliciously undermined by the clichéd postcard of the area, enclosed with the publication in a plastic bag and provided with a woodland scent by perfumer Anne Flipo. All of these elements combine to create an intriguing, beautifully executed project, the typography and design of which fully support the content.