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pierre girardin  

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In the Moroccan Siroua, documenting shepherds, livestock breeders, and craftswomen in wool production in the era of climate change. Project supported by the CNAP and awarded the Textile Exchange Prize 2025. in corsica on wild cow with writer émilie laystary published in regain magazine On the making of pottery using ancient methods in the Moroccan Rif, within a community of women potters. A project initiated by Memori Lab. Lavera - Sunset, the great star of seaside encounters and a photographic cliché.  Between documentary photography and impressions, the series reveals the coastline of the Bouches-du-Rhône at sunset. A multifocal vision that immerses the viewer in this shift of state orchestrated by nature and intensified by human activities.  In the Anthropocene era, twilight colors are intensified by pollution and aerosols emitted into the atmosphere, particularly sulfur dioxide. This gas, naturally produced during volcanic eruptions, has also been one of the main atmospheric pollutants since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, emitted in large quantities by refineries, smelters, and fossil fuel power plants. By loading the sky with fine particles that scatter blue light, it leaves a predominance of red tones, especially visible when the sun is low.  These colorful skies have also marked art history. Researchers have been able to analyze the pollution present in the atmosphere at certain periods of the 19th century by studying the colors in paintings by Turner or Monet.  Paradoxically, injecting sulfur into the atmosphere is also a solution being considered by some geoengineering companies to combat global warming. Sulfur particles, when in contact with water, reflect part of the solar radiation back into space, as during major volcanic events, when drops in temperature were observed for several years. Tests are even reported to have been carried out in 2022 by the American startup Make Sunsets, without the knowledge of the scientific community, disregarding the risks of water acidification and the unpredictable effects on global weather.  The project fictionalizes the coastline of the Bouches-du-Rhône, from the Camargue to the Marseille Corniche, through these concerns, during the brief moments of sunset—markers of time and the environment. venelles -  this work is a study of peri-urban identity. A walk through the map of this municipality reveals residential neighborhoods, the commercial zone, agricultural land under pressure from urbanization, and the highway that runs through its center. Its past sometimes seems to have been neglected and swallowed up by modernity. venelles, moreover, has no great history nor any major monument. I focused on the interactions between urbanized areas and the surrounding nature. My images examine the expression of modernity in the occupation of this territory, which not so long ago was only a small village in the aix-en-provence countryside.