J 've discovered Anne Melki on Facebook. I then navigated to his blog and his world, his photographs and snapshots, and I thought that his approach was very courageous.
Anne Melki is assistant social service and photographer. Let her tell us more ...
Personally, I am particularly affected by the matters discussed in this interview, I hope you will find the same interest. Thank you Anne.
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| conducted as part of a work on substandard housing in Seine-Saint-Denis |
Hello Anne. Could you introduce yourself briefly?
Issue of popular education movements, I am a social worker specializing in health Seine-Saint-Denis. I am also a member of the Collective ESORS (And if you enchant the Social).
Where did you get the idea to photograph your urban strolling and so give to see your encounters in social work ? How long do you practice this discipline?
First photograph with me since childhood. Early on I used the reflex of my father, and we occupied our Sunday afternoon to develop our pictures in the bathroom. A few years ago, reading the Journal of the Outside Annie Ernaux aroused in me the emotion of these flashes photographs, which sometimes assail me: photos lost, such as deeds, fuzzy, and not daring to too late ... and my photographic ethics. I wanted to do track, in the form of " ethnotextes (Giroud).
In social work, it is these flashes that make me love my job, for those moments when for a moment, the office allows the permanent presence, good exposure, revelation, transcending the boundaries dominant-dominated, CG helped.
These are the interstitial spaces and places for the meeting which interested me. recorded in books or on hard disks for years my notes and photographs - that are unpretentious, an impressionistic portrait of these lives and singular moments - have ever taken the form of " Briefs streets."
your opinion, what is the relationship between your business and this business?
Through photography, I try to take a look at the social fact with an objective to preserve a "good distance" or voyeur nor aesthetic. A distance to be seen, which brings together the (y) that we seek. In this, photography is not for me an end in itself, beyond the shot, it's here and there "to take a stand ... even if bias is sometimes against the current common sense ...
Working in Seine-Saint-Denis it has all the more sense to me: how to work to change the look falsely coded as one carries on the suburbs?
This photo is like a compendium of data that can contribute to an awareness of social issues, as much as an impressionistic stroll the streets at will and meetings, composing a picture of the city as it consists , decomposes, is recomposed.
The photographic act is for me a meeting the other, which reflects and reveals ... both wealth and potential, that the situations of exclusion and indignity.
What are the different projects that you have achieved?
- Some brief were exposed to Wink Theatre in Saint-Jean de Braye (near Orleans) Wink Theatre and the Theatre de la Commune in Aubervilliers (93)
- My photographs were used to illustrate the story collection "The stranger" produced by the association You know New (Castor Astral Publishing), a calendar of Social Work in Seine-Saint-Denis (Clicoss 93) , an article on social work at night (Review Plume)
- As part of my participation in the Collective ESORS, I participated in photographic projects on substandard housing and disability.
How do we manage the search of beauty and the risk of falling into voyeurism?
As I have said earlier, I think it's just being a social worker who protects me voyeurism, ordered me always "crop" to change point of view - and thereby divest myself of my prejudices or my false intuitions - to put me in a "good vicinity" (Christine Garcette). Do not lose the thread ethics is the surest way not to turn in the emotion at all costs, unnecessary sensationalism. My photos probably not to interest the press and the public because they are borrowed from this quasi-political bias.
Could you describe an encounter / experience which you found particularly memorable?
There are many ... so that short street!
Mr. A. comes to see me regularly, for an administrative document that does not ... because there had beautiful fruit market today " hold, I give you a " ... whether I'm going to talk too much ... sometimes ...
He arrived in Algeria in 44, after served in the French army. He tells me
France and the Paris of the sixties. The night club he managed. The ratonnade 17 October 61 ... and this scar from bars his face. He speaks of Algeria before independence, too, of solidarity between men, Jews, Christians, Muslims. He tells me about his political involvement in La Courneuve, and its commitment to 4000.
He said "we never the opportunity to drink tea together " and he released a bag of supermarket spent two glasses and a jar of jam exhalations of sweet mint.
In this small office gray institution, he tells me about my story ...
... we raccommodons history.
Would you add anything?
Being planned is my engine. I'm open to any proposal for cooperation!
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