Since the Covid-19 pandemic, masks have more than ever become part of the daily life of our caregivers, the last shield against the pandemic. This series of portraits stemmed from the desire to pay tribute to these men and women who, every day in hospitals, face the virus. These portraits reveal their relationship to the mask, but also our own. Masked face vs. face without mask? The truth is ultimately in the middle, when you put it on or take it off, during that moment when the caregiver no longer poses and forgets the photographer's lens. Everything shines through:all emotions, bizarreness, weariness, irritation, beauty ...
While transgender women throughout Latin America are jeopardized by systemic stigmatization and discrimination, in Central America they are further threatened by the region's endemic violence from gangs, clients, police and even their families. Abre Camino (coming soon) explores the push and pull factors of migration that trans women face in Central America and on their journey towards Mexico and the United States.
Seine-Saint-Denis, an underprivileged area, has paid the heaviest price for Covid-19. Precarious and unhealthy populations; cramped or overcrowded housing; "front line" workers exposed to high risks of contamination ... All of the area's social factors could only worsen the health disaster. The phenomenon is not new, Seine-Saint-Denis has been considered the first "medical desert in France
Sencirk, a Senegalese circus
Sencirk is the only professional circus in Senegal and one of very few in Africa. Its founder used to live as a street kid in Dakar. His story makes Sencirk also a social circus as they regularly practice with street kids and try to support the children.
Aegean exiles
Aegean exiles is a documentary project located on the island of Lesbos, studying this territory at the crossroads of worlds, bringing together the East and the West, an immemorial place of transit. It searches for visible and imperceptible traces, left in the landscape and in memories by the never-ending hustle and bustle of humans. Through this series of portraits, landscapes and archival documents, Mathias Benguigui invites us to another reading of contemporary issues in Lesbos.
Avec la crise, les inégalités se sont accrues. De nombreuses familles de la banlieue de Bogota ont accroché des vêtements rouges aux fenêtres, pour signaler qu'elles n'ont plus rien à manger dans la maison. En tant que victimes de la faim, beaucoup ont fini par briser le couvre-feu pour sortir et essayer de trouver quelque chose à manger pour leur famille.
Hungry days in Bogota
During the Covid-19 crisis, the main problems in Colombia were hunger and evictions. The health emergency revealed a situation of extreme poverty in which most of the population lives. Most Colombian workers live thanks to an informal economy, without any health care and earn the bare minimum to not starve.
With the crisis the inequalities have increased. Many families in the suburbs of Bogota have hung red clothes on the windows, to signal that they have nothing more to eat in the house. Suffering from hunger, many people began to break the curfew to go out and try to get something to eat for their families.
Green gold rush
We are in Altamira, in the heart of the State of Parà, the epicenter of the fires where the Amazonian forest is a victim of its coveted riches.
In recent years, large corporations and very powerful farmers have been hoarding resources regardless of the environment and indigenous communities. The election of Bolsonaro as president only made matters worse: in Brazil deforestation has doubled in one year, devastating 10,000 km2 of land. Altamira is the city of all excess, a city that holds all the pain caused by the hardships threatening the Amazon today: fires, deforestation, mines and hydroelectric factories.
Since the dismantling of Calais' great 'jungle' in 2016, camps have multiplied in Dunes' industrial zone where some 1,200 people currently live.For these Afghans, Eritreans, Sudanese, Iranians and even Syrians, the tempo of life in Calais is set by the visits of humanitarian associations, police pressure and desperate attempts to reach England in the hope of starting a new life there. The last leg of a long journey that never really ends.
Fallen Angels
Sinjar, Iraq. Fallen angels is a visual and poetic exploration of the invisible: loss, pain, trauma, memories. Through portraiture, still life images and merged photographs, the sequence takes the viewer inside a collectively traumatised community: the Yezidis of Sinjar, in north-western Iraq, a minority attacked by the Islamic State group (ISIS) in 2014. Thousands of people were killed or abducted. Today, this land feels like a land of ghosts. The living ones are haunted by the dead, the memory of missing relatives and friends never fades. Time has passed, trauma hasn’t.
A great lie
A great lie is a projection into the absurd, an ironic fresco, a political joke, on the North Korean regime. This photographic fable is a meaningful nonsense, a satire of the true false, a visual poetry which changes the norm and which suspects Pyongyang to lead us up the garden path.
When animals heal humans
"Animal mediation" brings together all the professional practices that use animals for therapeutic purposes (in nursing homes, nurseries, medical centers, ...) in order to improve the physical and psychological well-being of people. Animals can open doors and touch emotions caregivers cannot always reach.
Black garden
When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, the Nagorno-Karabakh region proclaimed its independence, breaking away from Azerbaijan after a bloody war. A fragile cease-fire was signed in 1994.
Unfortunately, clashes still erupt regularly along the border. With this series I want to portray the men and women who are caught in the limbo of an endless war. In a world steeped in patriotism and military culture, misfortunes and intimate dramas feed a collective heroism.
Holy Women! is a series produced in Algeria between 2016 and 2019, showing portraits of women of different generations. This is an immersion in their intimacy and a questioning of the space left to them, even that which they impose. In today's society the Algerian woman is still under wardship and has to endure the weight of the traditions. Yet she resists, carrying the hope for a better Algeria.
Louis Aliot, non-partisan
He is the architect of the National Front's undemonization strategy in the 2000s, and a former vice-president of this French far-right political party: Louis Aliot created a political earthquake on June 28th 2020 in Perpignan, when he became mayor of a city of more than 100,000 inhabitants. This is the first time in France for someone from this political party. However, he does not want to hear that he is a mayor from the far-right, proudly recalling he campaigned as non-partisan. Louis Aliot has been living in Perpignan for years, just like me, and he has won his bet to conquer the city where I live. My approach was rather simple: I began this work six months before the election, followed him on a daily basis and in the privacy of a hyper-mediated campaign.
Invisible handicap
Bipolar disorder takes a heavy toll on patients and their families. Many characteristics related to the disease (substance abuse problems, mood swings) are not only stigmatizing, but they also lead to a great loneliness. This project focuses on this illness, the typical situations encountered by patients who oscillate between a highly medicalized reality, a certain stability and moments when they are out of control.
DR Congo's silent killer: measles
A killer has swept across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ravaging villages and leaving a trail of thousands dead. But it isn’t a new rebel group, Ebola or even the novel coronavirus; it’s proven far more deadly. Measles has infected over 300,000 people in Congo since the start of 2019, officially killing over 6,000 people, more than twice as many as Ebola.
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