Pascal Maitre: “There is a risk that the massacres will continue against the Fulani”


View of the exhibition “Fulani of the Sahel”.  In Niger, in the village of Tamaya, young 17-year-old boys adorn themselves and put on make-up for ritual festivals

Photojournalist Pascal Maitre, a fine connoisseur of Africa and the Sahel, is the winner of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière – Académie des beaux-arts prize in 2020. A two-year work to document an ancient community, the Fulani, caught in the climatic and jihadist tensions gripping the Sahel. Fulani of the Sahel is the subject of a free exhibition in Paris, to be seen until December 4 at the Institut de France.

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