I circled the earth in 2018. And wherever I have looked, it got lost in the dark. A river, dead, over a distance of 650 kilometers, deformed fish, radioactive forests, children born with no eyes, the mafia dealing in toxic waste, plastic adrift in the ocean forming particles that are now part of a grotesque food chain. How have we let this happen?

A look against the current on the roads of exile. A return to places sometimes forgotten after being overexposed. This work derogates from the representations identified. It provokes and renews the look. The bias is assumed: images that do not show the refugees but exposes the places they have crossed. Images embodied in their dialogue with the testimonies.

The night falls on Europe, a photographic exhibition and a film by Samuel Bollendorff, was presented under the Canopée des Halles in Paris for one month, from April 15 to May 11, 2017, in free access. More than 100 000 visitors !

In France, between 2011 and 2013, a person set himself on fire in the square public every 15 days. Why in France, didn’t we perceive these acts as we considered them when they took place abroad?

A POST-INDUSTRIAL TALE IN TALKING PHOTOGRAPHY It is the story of Cloclo n ° 18, majorette, of Jonathan, tuning enthusiast, Freddy, breeder of fighting cocks and Gros Bleu, the traveling pigeon, who to the rhythm of the harmony of Oignies and under the The benevolent gaze of the giants, live their passions inherited from the working traditions of the North.

Nowhere safe street show in Paris along the Canal St martin until 10th of april.

Nowher safe / A l'abri de rien wins the Prix Europa Award 2011

Tokyo is Hot Tonight is a personal work carried out in 2002. This work is based on the Kandinsky's lecture on colors at the Bauhaus. It seeks to find in Tokyo’s daily life the tension rules and chromatic codes that the painter taught his students

Four hundred million Chinese peasants live below the poverty line. Exploited, and displaced, this cheap workforce at the mercy of corrupted powers begins each day the "Chinese economical miracle”, at the risk of its life.

Going beyond the documentary tradition, SILENCE AIDS consists in a series of portraits, paired with a few simple words in which the people shown reflect on their condition as AIDS patients. The texts talk about the horror and the injustice of their poor access to treatment, the images show the humanity and dignity of their gaze.

After thirty years of civil war, there is only one man for ten women left, 47% of the population is younger than 14 and the countryside is strewn with landmines. To rebuild the country, Beijing offers money against oil.

Far from sensationalist reporting, Jacky Durand and Samuel Bollendorff spent ten days and nights with Police Rescue squads in the twelfth arrondissement of Paris, where the security discourse gives way to social emergency.

Maternity ward, Psychiatry, Emergencies, Geriatrics, from 1998 to 2004 Samuel Bollendorff's work focused on the public hospital system in France, questioning the place of the individual in a clinical environment.
His work was published in many periodicals such as LʼExpress, ELLE, Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur, and shown as a projection at the photography...

On the 28 September 2000, the visiting of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by the Likud leader, Ariel Sharon, accompanied by several members of his party, was the event that sparked off the second Intifada. Ramallah - October 2000

A WEB DOCUMENTARY ON THE POOR HOUSING IN FRANCE Directed by Mehdi Ahoudig and Samuel Bollendorff Produced by Textuel La Mine Online release on www.a-l-abri-de-rien.com

Nowhere safe street show in Paris along the Canal St martin until 10th of april.