In the book A Certain Nature, after Giverny, Jean Gaumy offers an original vision of painter Claude Monet's world-famous garden. Over the seasons, he has intensified his formal research into plants, creating black-and-white compositions that border on the painterly and the abstract.

 In this book, Jean Gaumy explores the richness of plants, their structures, rhythms and almost microscopic details. Through the alleys of Giverny, Gaumy not only photographs a place, he also retraces the thread of his memories and tells us a story: that of his childhood, marked by the simple joy of a family garden, a place of discovery and reverie, to which he tries to bring back to life through these images. An essay by Jean-Christophe Bailly examines Jean Gaumy's “photographic decisions” in relation to the collective imagination surrounding Giverny, and completes the book.