Ongoing project involving a book of photographies and an exhibition on the mountains of the Ardèche at the limits of the Haute-Loire and the Lozère. These "High Plains" (about 3500ft) in which rise the river Loire and the river Ardèche, cover a vast area dominated by Mount Mézenc (5754ft) and Mount Gerbier-de-Jonc (5100ft).    

Jean-Luc Meyssonnier has walked this country for many years, only guided by his concept of black and white, just as the silence has its night and its day. He loves to meet this "Land From Above" to explore its intimate geography, to take in the slightest of its ripples, to discover its features as a face extracting itself from the night and waiting for the promise of the day. Of these valleys, these high plains, the Ardèche before reaching Chauvet, this young Loire river, he introduces to us a world of pure or diaphanous white, dramatic or twilight-coloured blacks, a land of shadows, vibrations, breath and light. Here a river is born, trees shake under an abrupt gust of wind, a water rich in promises, roads covered with snow at the bottom of the sky which return the silence and speak to us about a feeling of duration.
A rare place where the senses are always on alert and seem to join the elements as by magic, these "high places" exercise a strange fascination on the one who gives himself to the land.  
Jean-Luc Meyssonnier delivers us here the singular beauty of this " Land From Above", not so that it differs vainly from the rest of the world but simply so that it is completely itself, as if the photographer had, for a moment, raised its skin.