Logo: Trimester print

Reference
#12T1
Title
La Pouponnière
Author(s)
Malik Nejmi
Chosen by
Baptiste Lignel
Print Run
30 (+ 5 A.P.)
Production Date
30/03/12
Publication date
30/03/12
Dimensions
20x30 cm
Features
Numbered & signed
Type of print
Lambda

Folder specifications

Paper
Ecolabel & FSC certified. 320 g. weight, pH neutral. Long Life.
Adhesive
Acid-free
Boards
Grey bookboard, pH neutral
Availability
In stock
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120,00 €

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

  • Photography: La Pouponnière overview

Caption

"Why photograph Africa? Why photograph the rejected in Africa, the children cast away from their own societies? Is it going to make a change, to make a difference? Is it going to make these children’s life better, or alter the social behaviors that have lead to their abandon? Who knows.

 

When asked why he did those stories in Africa, Malik Nejmi simply says that he had to. After coming across the rst of those situations, in Bamako, he could not walk away from it. As a human being and as a photographer –it can be difcult to tell one apart from the other-. He started working, and then came back, and then moved on to the next story of what will ultimately be a book.

 

Photography is not objective.

 

Then the question is how subjective does it become within each project. Of course Malik’s work in Africa could be labeled as documentary photography. But what makes it so powerful is the amount of personal feeling –empathy, anger, love- that the author included in the project. Expanding beyond the frames of the photographs, mixing a variety of photo types and formats, and delivering to the viewers the elements they could piece back together to create meaning.

 

This image reaches a gripping balance between misery and hope, between grim and beautiful. The photographer transforms a boring action into a symbolic gesture of hope, into a beautiful poem."

 

Baptiste Lignel