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Fos est plus connue pour son complexe industrialo-portuaire que son équipe de foot locale. Et pourtant, la ville regorge d'équipements sportifs. Nous avons suivi l'équipe 3 de l'Etoile Sportive Fosséenne. Ouvriers pour la plupart, enfants de la vague d'immigration (...)

48 rue du Fbg Poissonnière

18 juillet 2000 : un plafond d’un des deux bâtiments du « 48 rue du faubourg poissonnière » s’écroule en partie, entraînant l’évacuation immédiate, par la police, de cinq appartements. Seule proposition de relogement : un foyer (...)

Amaury, a Lineage of Founders

The Amaury foundry has been casting bronze for 90 years – the grandfather, then the father, the uncles, and finally the sons, Jean-Claude and Jean-Pierre. Before, the clientele was made up mostly of antique dealers from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. "When we were kids, we’d make deliveries (...)

De bric et de broc

J’ai vécu avec les Compagnons, en banlieue de Chartres, de mars 2003 à juillet 2004. Prendre le temps, parce que la rencontre interdit l’urgence, et que la confiance se gagne à force de présence. Ne rien forcer, attendre d'être invité au dessin. (...)

Dosta

De squats en gymnases, entre poussettes et caddies, ce reportage mêlant bande dessinée et photographies accompagne l’errance de familles Rroms expulsées de campements montreuillois à l'hiver 2009.
En octobre 2011, le lieu qu’une partie du groupe (...)

Emergency service for child victims of sex offences

In hospitals, an emergency service is being set up to listen to children who are victims of sex offences. In 1999, the association 'The Child's Voice' opened, in the pediatric unit of a hospital in Béziers, the first medico-legal unit for child victims of sex offences. The idea is to provide (...)

Families rejected from state housing

French families who have been expelled from HLM (French state housing blocks) survive in humble dwellings on the edge of cities, without electricity or running water. To ensure a decent life for their children, the parents do as many odd jobs as they can. Their priority: to preserve the family unit (...)

If you don't pay, you leave...

Nobody knows exactly how many residential hotels exist. Nobody really cares. They blend into the city environment, only recognisable by their discrete plaques 'Residential hotel - rooms let by the month'. The reality is often more sordid than the bohemian and artistic image of such places may have (...)

Les centres villes, c’est pour les riches ?

Direction Marseille. En zoomant très fort, le tout petit quartier du Panier. Dans tous les guides, il est noté trois étoiles. Les touristes ne le ratent jamais. Ses rues escarpées, son linge aux fenêtres, ses pagnolades font du plus ancien des quartiers de Marseille une carte postale parfaite. (...)

Photographies

First project built in the 50's in France, by the architect Labourdette, this suburban city is the bject of numerous sociological studies. With a popultaion of 60000 inhabitants and a hundred of differents communities, the city own a "density" of life and stories without equivalent. (...)

Therapy for pedophiles

At the Fresnes Detention Centre, the psychiatric hospitalisation unit (PHU) offers therapy for pedophiles in an effort to prevent recidivism. In a separate wing, the centre welcomes only those who are motivated to follow the treatment, based on group behavioural therapy. The program includes video (...)

Transhumance, dans les pas de Georges Ramin

In France, there are only a few shepherds left to perpetuate the tradition of true transhumance on foot. Georges Ramin is one of these irreducible people. For 38 years, he has been bringing down his herd of 1,200 ewes each year before the first snowfall. A tradition that allows the sheep to eat (...)

Working In A Coal Mine

On September 20, 2003 the town of Freyming-Merlebach, headquarters of the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL), celebrated the end of coal-mining activity. The Lorraine mines were the last still in operation in France, and had their heyday from the end of the War through the 1950s. Of the (...)