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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]