Raymond Depardon: Communes
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Communes is a photographic essay by Raymond Depardon exploring the villages of Frances Mediterranean inland region. Its 80 black-and-white photographs were taken by Depardon in the summer of 2020, after Frances first lockdown, and cover the departments of Aveyron, Lozre, Gard and Hrault. These villages are timeless havens of peace, where tranquility and cool prevail. Witnesses to history, they were threatened by the Nant concession, a shale gas extraction project, but the inhabitants protested and the project was abandoned in 2015. The villages, with their cobbled streets, old houses with jagged facades and rustic construction, are once again thriving.The photographs are accompanied by a text by Salom Berlioux, president of the association Chemins dAvenirs, an association that accompanies and promotes thousands of young people from isolated areas. Berlioux is also the author of Les Invisibles de la Rpublique. Comment sauver la jeunesse de la France priphrique?(Robert Laffont, 2019) and Nos campagnes suspendes. La France priphrique face la crise (Editions de lObservatoire, 2020).
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