ALEPPO MON AMOUR


Katharine COOPER



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Katharine Cooper went to Aleppo in April 2017, four months after the city was freed from the terror of groups like Jabat al-Nosra, Fatah el-Sham and Daesh. She stayed there for six weeks, charmed by the tenderness, the joy of living, the richness and the goodness of this land and its people, united and courageous in face of such an adversity. Instead of destruction, deserted streets and veiled faces, she found men covered by the dust of reconstruction.
Native of Grahamstown in South Africa, Katharine Cooper, born in 1978, left her home country at the age of eight to settle in Zimbabwe. She was educated by the Dominican Sisters in Harare before leaving Africa in 1999 to study photography in the United Kingdom. In 2001, she entered the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) in Arles (promotion in 2004). During the next ten years, the young photographer was a member of the team of Lucien Clergue and shot the negatives of the famous photographer up to his death in 2014. In 2012, Katharine Cooper won the Prix Photo Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière of the Académie des Beaux-Arts with her suite “Les Blancs Africains”. In 2015, she collaborated on the exhibition “Lucien Clergue: the First Albums” at the Grand Palais in Paris. The same year, she embarked on a new adventure in the Middle East with a suite of portraits of Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq. She is particularly attached to a suite about female Kurdish soldiers. She is one of the first female photographers to enter Palmyra, freed in March 2016. Her photographs are owned by many private collections all over the world.



Editor : ARNAUD BIZALION
Publication year : 2018
Number of pages : 192
Language : Français
ISBN 13 : 9782369801412