Jean-Louis COURTINAT
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Photo extraite du livre "Clichy sans Cliché", ed. Delpire. En 2006, la ville de Clichy-sous-Bois m’a demandé de participer à un projet photographique collectif sur Clichy. Le but était de donner une nouvelle image de cette ville après les émeutes violentes et le décès de Bouna et Zyed, deux enfants morts électrocutés le 27 octobre 2005 dans un transformateur EDF alors qu’ils échappaient à la police. J’ai tout de suite accepté. D’une part parce qu’en tant que citoyen je me sentais concerné par l’embrasement de cette banlieue, et d’autre part car je trouvais injuste que l’on résume cette ville à ces sempiternelles images de voitures en feu qui firent la une de la presse mondiale. En vivant avec eux et en les photographiant, j’ai voulu leur rendre hommage. Clichy sans Cliché
This photo is an extract from the book “Clichy sans Cliché” (published by Delpire.) In 2006, the town of Clichy-sous-bois asked me to contribute to a collective photographic project to give the town a new image. The town had recently seen violent riots and, on the 27th of October 2005, the tragic death of two kids, Bouna and Zyed, who were electrocuted by an EDF transformer they were hiding in to escape police. I immediately accepted. As a French citizen, I was concerned by the unrest in the suburbs. I also felt it was unjust for the town to be seen so negatively, judged from the pictures of cars on fire which making the headlines worldwide. By living there and taking pictures of the townspeople, I wanted to pay them my respects.
Caption: The library in Clichy
This photo is an extract from the book “Clichy sans Cliché” (published by Delpire.) In 2006, the town of Clichy-sous-bois asked me to contribute to a collective photographic project to give the town a new image. The town had recently seen violent riots and, on the 27th of October 2005, the tragic death of two kids, Bouna and Zyed, who were electrocuted by an EDF transformer they were hiding in to escape police. I immediately accepted. As a French citizen, I was concerned by the unrest in the suburbs. I also felt it was unjust for the town to be seen so negatively, judged from the pictures of cars on fire which making the headlines worldwide. By living there and taking pictures of the townspeople, I wanted to pay them my respects.
Caption: The library in Clichy
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