“FUJI X PASSION”, NOVEMBER 2021: TAKING PICS DURING A RALLY

In FUJI X PASSION, November 2021 issue, Taking pictures during a rally: Individual tales and collective narrative in the eyes of a photographer, my photographic essay. ENJOY!

NOUS N’AURONS QUE CE QUE NOUS SAURONS PRENDRE

WE WILL ONLY HAVE WHAT WE CAN TAKE
With this slogan I began my photographic reportage on the student demonstrations against the CPE (contrat première embauche, in English first employment contract) on 10 March 2006.
That’s my first political assignment – I usually photographed rock musicians – for an on-line magazine directed by Italian best-seller writer Umberto Eco.
15 years later, I guess both student slogans and my frames are urgently topical.
A series of imperfect and blurred images (taken with a cheap compact camera, KODAK EASYSHARE C300) tell of a revolution that has never ended and needs to be restarted today…

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED “STOP CPE” SHOTS

Paris. March 2006. Students from universities and high schools launched a series of protest rallies in the Latin Quarter against the bill on employment known as CPE. Sorbonne University and Collège de France were the epicenter of the protest. The CPE reportage is my first official professional photo project realized with a super compact and portable Kodak Easyshare C300 camera. Here are published for the first time some unpublished shots of my reportage.

CPE & NUIT DEBOUT, 2006-2016

Paris. March 2006. Students from universities and high schools launched a series of protest rallies in the Latin Quarter against the bill on employment known as CPE. Ten years later the Nuit debout movement has emerged from opposition to the 2016 neoliberal labor reforms known as the Loi Travail. Place de la République – a location dear to me (see my successful Signes/Segni exhibition in November 2015) – is the epicenter of this new protest. The CPE reportage is my first official professional photo project realized with a super compact and portable Kodak Easyshare C300 camera.