"While we have many representations of justice — full of symbols, such as a scale here, the architecture of a courthouse there, or a sword further away — we have very few actual images. Isn’t it often said that justice is 'faceless'? What we lack are visions with open meanings, unusual forms, and silent speech. Descriptive fragments that aim less to define justice than to evoke its ineffable presence deep within us through a detail, an atmosphere: images that give form to an imaginary. Justice had representations; Thomas Klotz thus usefully adds images to them.", Michel Poivert

Although photographs dealing with justice are common in the press, they remain rare in artists' books. Yet this is precisely the focus of Thomas Klotz’s work, which confirms his mastery of color in exploring his vision of justice. For this is truly a work of appropriation, not a simple exposition of a system. Far from any documentary ambition, these powerful and embodied images reveal the heart and soul of the judicial world, far more than its mechanics or backstage.

The exploration of this concept unfolds through places, institutions, but also through people and stories, all captured through the visual approach that defines Thomas Klotz’s photography. His work highlights the power of color, the attention to textures, and those small details that open into narratives and fragments of life—so many clues to what justice might mean today.

The book includes a preface by Michel Poivert, and enriched by texts from Éric Dussart, Mathieu Delahousse, Abel Quentin, Dominique Simonnot, Christophe Jamin, Laure Heinich. 

Thomas Klotz was born in 1977 in Seclin, in northern France. He lives and works in Paris. Fascinated by American colorists from an early age, he focuses on the everyday and the trivial, which take on an intriguing and unique depth under his gaze.