Panoptik
By bringing together archival images and current photographs, PANOPTIKÔN intertwine heritage and creation, vernacular and contemporary photography to imagine a new, panoptic archive: that of a human history – both collective and individual – of the prison condition in Brussels prisons.
Kashmir. Wait & See
It is the story of the discovery of a region. An imagined Orient, praised for the splendor of its peaks. Lands coveted for their resources and geography by empires and then by countries. A territory once trodden by cavalries, later struck by missiles. Since the hasty partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Kashmir has […]
Buxbaumia
As in each of my projects, whether they concern worlds in crisis or familiar realities, I choose to focus above all on people, their experiences and their circumstances. Here,by invitation to a residency from Images Singulières, in the Cévennes, in France, identities, ages and stories intersect. Some have been here for a long time, while […]
Zoonose
It’s a dystopian world, a wold of machines, of humans disguised as cosmonauts. A world where people die without seeing their loved ones, without touching a hand, without glimpsing a face. Where the treatment they receive is dispensed by a cohort of masks, artificial clothing, plastic visors, gloves, limbs wrapped in synthetic material. It is […]
White Gold
What gold meant to earlier eras, and petrolum to previous century, lithium may eclipse in the coming years. As demand soars for powerful batteries, Bolivia dreams of strinking it rich by tapping it’s huge lithium deposit. But will it’s people benefit ? In the Salar de Uyuni, a dried up salt lake, located on the […]
La Rinconada
In the Peruvian Andes, La Rinconada is the highest settlement on the planet, a place whose bleak existence depends on the high price of its most coveted resource—gold. As the price of the precious element more than quintupled over the past two decades, what was once a small town in the shadow of snowcapped Mount Ananea […]
Vale Grande Carajas
In Brazil, the Programa Grande Carajas, in the heart of the Amazonian forest, is the largest complex composed of several mines for the extraction of iron in the world. It is here that are located the main activities of the Vale company. This Brazilian company is the world’s largest producer of iron ore and the […]
Cerro Rico
Potosí is a disconcerting example of how the economic system that enriches the industrialised world is facilitated by people who will never benefit from it themselves; people who – driven both by the world economy and their own desperate need to survive – are currently in the process of destroying the very place that provides […]
D’entre eux
Since 1830, Belgium brings together two peoples, united by the will of the great powers of the time to create a buffer state. Between Latin and Germanic cultures, it shows, according to Victor Hugo, “this tormented and bizarre taste resulting from the shock between North and South, Flanders and Spain”. In exile myself, I felt […]
Sète
This is Sète in winter. Sète as a discovery in terra incognita for someone who has accustomed us, rather, to distant lands – Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan – with projects that depict worlds in crisis, victims of their history. Sète as a return to Europe, and to roots; Sète as a […]
Land of Cush
Sudan, the largest country in Africa, has gone through a significant moment in its history. In January 2005, a peace agreement between North and South Sudan put an end to the longest civil war in Africa, with a death toll estimated at two million. The Final March to Freedom, i.e. the years of change as […]
Congo in Limbo
In Congo in Limbo, no one laughs. This begs explanation. Because, for whoever’s been to the country knows that laughter – the insolent challenge of happiness in the face of tragedy – ranks as a national pastime there. For good reason: Leopold II and the vile scramble for ivory and natural rubber, a lustrum of […]
Broken Hopes
The interactive web-documentary by Cédric Gerbehaye and Eve Sabbagh is a collaboration between Action Against Hunger, Darjeeling and Agence VU’. The 20-minutes multimedia experience takes the user on a journey across the West Bank, charting the trip on an interactive map, juxtaposed with testimonies from both Palestinian and Israeli families. Commissioned by ACF – Action Against Hunger