Tag: Culture
Angoulême, the Manga City – Tell me about it
For this new edition, the Angoulême International Comics Festival continues to put manga in the spotlight. A real success, the most popular cultural object with young people, a pavilion is…
“The Empire of Silence”: in the heart of darkness, with Thierry Michel
For twenty-five years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been torn apart by a war largely ignored by the media and the international community. The victims number in the hundreds…
The Angoulême International Comics Festival in the colors of Ukraine
In Angoulême, in the south-west of France, the 49th International Comics Festival is held until Sunday. Comic book lovers, authors, publishers are meeting there for the first time since the…
Meeting with Jean-Yves Tadié, the specialist in the work of Marcel Proust
Jean-Yves Tadié is professor emeritus at La Sorbonne (Paris IV) and director of the “Classic Folio” and “Folio Theater” collections at Gallimard. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure,…
Martine Delvaux, rekindling the fire of ecological and feminist struggles
An essential voice of feminism in Canada, Martine Delvaux was born in 1968. She now teaches literature at the University of Quebec in Montreal, and is the author of numerous…
The photographer Raymond Depardon in a word, a gesture and a silence
Born in 1942 on a farm in the Saône valley, he left for Paris at the age of 16, proud of his photographer operator certificate. Co-founder of the Gamma photographic…
the eye of Raymond Depardon and the hand of Kamel Daoud
During the Evian Accords, on March 18, 1962, Raymond Depardon was 19 years old. During the negotiations between France and the FLN, he was one of the few photographers present…
The photographer Raymond Depardon in a word, a gesture and a silence
01:57 Born in 1942 on a farm in the Saône valley, he left for Paris at the age of 16, proud of his photographer operator certificate. Co-founder of the Gamma…
Depardon – Daoud, crossed views on Algeria from independence to today
Cultural meeting 60 years ago, on March 18, 1962, France and the provisional Algerian government signed the Évian Accords, which ended the Algerian war and opened the way to independence.…
Julie Doucet, Chris Ware and René Goscinny, comics at all costs
Welcome to the 49th edition of the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival where passionate readers, talented authors and animated heroes of all kinds meet in the streets of the city, and…