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I will be back to Guatemala

12 August 2006

I will be back to Guatemala soon to finish my project with the Itza’ community. We expect to produce two books about the Itza’. One photographic book mainly based of portraits made in the Itza’ community and one book based on some translations of Itza’ text in Spanish and English. This project, leaded by the american/ french anthropologist Scott Atran (CNRS France, University of Michigan), the french/chilian linguist Ximena Lois and the french linguist Valentina Vapnarsky is part of a major research started in the Peten area in Guatemala in the early 80’s. Read more…

Glenbrook North Highschool

26 June 2006

Glenbrook North Highschool, Illinois is the place where’s I’m starting a new project in Chicago, with four typical american highschools. And I’ve started with an iconic one, the school where the John Hughes “Breakfast Club” with Molly Ringwald was filmed in 1985. Most of the french people don’t remember the “Breakfast Club” film, when all americans do. It’s like a start, one of the first teenager movies, maybe a little bit naive, but turning the camera, an introspection, in the teenagers mind… behind the stereotype of 4 characters representing somehow the socials classes of of the United State of America of the Ronald Reagan years. Of course, Larry Clark brang much more with “Kids”, but still, Breakfast club made sense in its context.

The ALONE TOGETHER show

22 June 2006

The ALONE TOGETHER show took place last week in Den Haag at the Nouvelles Images Gallery (here there work of Jasper De Beijer, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Stephen Hughes (it’s small here, see their work on the POC website!)… first official POC show after almost 4 years of existence.

POC meeting

22 June 2006

Eleven of the 22 members of POC were at the opening. The next meeting will probably be in Antwerpen, Belgium, in the end of 2006.