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January 20, 2010 by William ALIX

Contrasted week-end

Had an interesting couple of days last week-end. Saturday I visited the Christian Boltanski show at the Grand Palais. Took a few photos showing the impressive set-up, but you absolutely have to go to actually feel it. Some fun too, with “nurses” recording visitors’ heart beats, regularly emerging from their recording booths into the white [...]

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June 16, 2009 by William ALIX

Iranians Demonstrate Daily in Paris

Iranian nationals living in Paris and French supporters demonstrate almost daily against the fraud in Iran’s presidential election that saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reelected in a landslide. The disputed presidential poll has prompted the biggest street protests in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Many of the protestors hold pictures by AFP photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei, who [...]

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January 29, 2009 by William ALIX

Aux Armes Et Caetera…

Ils étaient des centaines des milliers à défiler jeudi 29 janvier à Paris. Une masse impressionnante piquée de drapeaux et banderoles, chantant slogans et revendications. Vision si familère qu’elle a le pouvoir de rendre aveugle et sourd. Qui sont ces gens? À 55 d’entre eux j’ai demandé de poser pour un portrait de face (ou pas), [...]