BLACK SUNSHINE

SOLEIL NOIR


Gaëlle HENKENS, Roger JOB



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During four years, photographers Roger Job and Gaëlle Henkens immersed themselves into the daily life of several breeders of horses and bulls in the Camargue. These families of ”manadiers” transmitted to them their passion, their fears and hopes.

In this book, they invite us to discover a unique culture close to the Provençal poets, gardians and ”Arlésiennes”. Following the rhythm of the seasons, they take a respectful and poetic look on a living tradition which has nothing to do with a folklore.

After having worked in Africa, Asia, Ukraine and Belgium helping youth as a social worker, Gaëlle Henkens resumed her photography studies at the Saint Luc in Liège. She collaborated with the Belgian mook 24h01 and published, as part of a group of photographers, SPECIAL, a book on the epic of ten athletes at the 2014 Special Olympics. In documentary, she seeks for traces of sensitivity and of the qualities of the human being, his determination and his resistance. This is what she tried to do throughout these four years spent in the Camargue, a little known land of clichés where men and women deserve to be met and listened to.

Roger Job studied journalism at the IHECS Brussels. His documentaries are published by the international press. His photographs taken alongside the victims of disasters and wars were broadcast by the Gamma agency. Winner of the Reporters Without Borders Award in 1992 for his documentary on the exodus of Mozambican refugees in South Africa, he was awarded the SPES Foundation Prize in 1999 for his work on the ”pastoral peoples”, followed, in 2011, by the Nikon Press Award and the Days Japan Jury Award for his work on Kenya’s Turkanas. He published Lettres sans frontières (1994), Congo 2000 (2000), Des Hommes et des Chevaux (2004), Turkanas, les premiers derniers hommes (2012), and Marque ou crève (2014).

 



Editor : EDITIONS DU CHENE
Publication year : 2019
Number of pages : 160
Language : French
ISBN 13 : 978-2812319990