Gone in a flash - watching the Tour de France spectators

Photographer Laurent Cipriani’s eerie images of fans at the world’s most famous cycling race capture a surreal sense of place and time

They are the people of France and they look isolated – and, more often than not, a bit unhappy.

France is a big country and Laurent Cipriani’s photographs of spectators at the Tour de France capture its scale. People in these pictures do not watch the legendary race in crowds. Instead they turn up in dribs and drabs when it passes by their homes or through their towns.

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