The Academy of Fine Arts is hosting until December 4, the exhibition “Peuls du Sahel” by photographer Pascal Maitre, winner of the 2022 edition of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography Prize – Academy of Fine Arts. Organized around three themes – Festivals, Daily life, Conflict and its consequences – this exhibition offers a sensitive and rigorous testimony to the Fulani people.
From Western Sahara to Kinshasa, from Berry to Benin, via Nigeria, or even Somalia, Pascal Maître has rolled out kilometers and kilometers of photo film to capture the lives of the men and women of this world.
While all eyes are riveted on Ukraine, he rekindles the light in the area of the three borders, between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where soldiers and jihadist groups clash on a daily basis and where the civilian population is very often caught in a vice. A region where insecurity and climate change compete for victims.
Among them: the Fulani, Fulani, Halpulaar, call them what you want. It is this nomadic people that he followed for two years, during their difficult fight to preserve their identity.
His work, honored with the prestigious Marc Ladreit de la Charrière photography prize, is exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the heart of Paris until December 4.
The photojournalist Pascal Master presents the exhibition “Peuls of the Sahel”
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