SICHUAN & QINGHAI, China 08/2024

Crossing the Tibetan plateaux from Chengdu to Golmud. This is the least populated region of China. Here, Tibetan nomads live and raise yaks, surrounded by peaks that often exceed 6,000 metres and whose access roads pass through passes over 4,000 metres high.

MALI 1984-1985

Historical photographs of Mali in the 1980s. Dogon country, town of Mopti on the banks of the Niger river, bush village market, traditional Bambara mask on the road to Guinea.

THE GREAT DROUGHT, north of Mali 08/1984

Severe drought in northern Mali as we travel up the tracks to Taoudenit, home to Peul and Tuareg herders. An area closed today.

SCHOOL OF DANCE, Palais Garnier Paris 1983

Claude Bessy’s School of Dance rehearses in the circular Zambelli studio set up under the dome of the Bibliothèque-Musée. My first B&W reportage using the 35 mm Kodak TriX 400 and my Nikon FM2, the first camera I bought with my savings and still in use today.

WEDDING EVE, Beni Yenni Algeria 1981

Wedding preparations in a village near Beni Yenni in Kabylia. The festivities begin on the eve of the ceremony with a men’s party attended by the groom.

VIDAL FARM. Savoy France 1979

The Vidal farm in the Savoie region and the mobile still where the farmers carried the marc to make the eau de vie.