Madeleine de Sinéty

Introduction

Taken during the decade between 1972 and 1982 in the small Breton village of Poilhes (Ille-et-Vilaine), this image stands as a visual fragment of exceptional anthropological and poetic density. The photograph does not merely record an evening meal in a rural setting; rather, it rises to the status of testimony to a vanishing peasant world, captured in a moment of intimate daily communion.