"While we have many representations of justice — full of symbols, such as a scale, a sword, or the architecture of a courthouse — 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 the imagination. Justice had representations; Thomas Klotz usefully adds images to them.", Michel Poivert.

Although photographs dealing with justice are common in the press, they remain rare in artists' books. 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 much more than they do 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 the kind of 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 by Éric Dussart, Mathieu Delahousse, Abel Quentin, Dominique Simonnot, Christophe Jamin, and 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.