Tag: Free portrait
Papa Ngady Faye, from Senegal to Italy, importer of African literature
Papa Ngady Faye is a Senegalese immigrant to Italy. Arrived illegally 17 years ago in the south of Italy, he started selling books in the street a bit by chance.…
Afghanistan as a love story
Sandra Calligaro grew up in the suburbs of Paris in a loving family. From a father passionate about beautiful Italian motorcycles, she has kept a taste for adventure. His mother,…
Rachel Jedinak, tireless witness to the Holocaust
Rachel Jedinak was eight years old on July 16, 1942, when the French police arrested her, her older sister and their mother during the great Vel d’Hiv roundup. For twenty-six…
Eliatha Cissé, the theater to heal the wounds of domestic violence
After having suffered domestic violence, Eliatha Cissé has rebuilt herself thanks to an association in Île-de-France. In addition to providing vital support for her and her newborn, the organization introduced…
Juliette Cazes, the thanatologist who lifts the veil of death
Juliette Cazes, 32, has always been drawn to death. From her four years, a little girl passionate about mummies, to her studies in anthropology, through professional experiences in the funeral,…
Angela Sofia Sterzer, the manipuri dance attached to the heart
Choreographer and dancer, German Angela Sofia Sterzer is based in Paris. She practices and teaches Manipuri dance, one of the oldest classical Indian dances, which she mixes with contemporary dance.…
Victor Timus, a Moldovan veteran between two wars
The presence of Russian forces in his village and the war in Ukraine remind this Moldovan veteran of the 1992 Transdniestrian conflict that war is never far away. He was…
from the Sahrawi refugee camps to the fight for identity
Teslem Sidi is a Saharawi activist. From Madrid, she fights not only for the cause of her people, in conflict with Morocco for over 40 years, but also for the…
Louis Witter, photojournalist and “little pebble in the shoe” of the State in Calais
Louis Witter is a French freelance photojournalist. Adventurer and resourceful since his high school, he gradually established himself as a specialist in exile and migrants, from Iraq to the city…
Livio Baldelli, from nightclub manager to luthier at home
Livio Baldelli became a luthier for guitars and basses in Paris during the first confinement: a rarity for a profession that has suffered greatly from the health crisis. But for…