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?
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 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.
Caen Penitentiary center 70% of inmates were convicted of sexual crimes. Sentences of ten, fifteen or twenty years to life sentences … They are there since … 7 years 5 years 6 and a half years 12 years 10 years 3 years and a half 11 years 13 years More than 20 years [...]
800 millions of jeans per year, twice as many legs, four times as many pockets and even more passers-by in which we will slip a belt… In Xintang, 50 km from Canton in China, these figures are calculated in sweat, in hours of work, in toxic discharges in rivers, in decibels. The jeans factory of [...]
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.
China is tackling the Mekong head-on. The Chinese government has decided to transform the river into a commercial highway for the region and at the same time an electrical energy source. Farther down the river, the peasants of Thailand, Laos or Cambodia are being deprived of water, silt, fish and rice...
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.
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.
Welcome to Ikealand : this improbable place in Älmhut, at the far end of Sweden, is the place where the company hosts its PR teams, its designers, its warehouses stretching as far as the eye can see. This small town is also home to Ikea housing estates, an Ikea hotel, an Ikea restaurant, an Ikea gym, an Ikea bank, an Ikea blues band, an Ikea school...
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At the supermarket, the “facing”, is the most important task to accomplish in the morning. A practical Anglicism, used here without an accent, the word describes the action of aligning to perfection the products on each shelf. The goal : crating a universe where order, harmony and, most importantly, abundance reign simultaneously.Text : Dorothée Werner.
Sparkling skirts, thundering soundtrack and sexy sway of the hips...The majorettes are definitely back and make their eternal baton spin around all France.
Reportage in the country of queens of rythm and villages.
Text by Dorothée Werner.
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
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...
2008 Winter Ready-to-Wear fashion show in Paris. Backstage.
Series produced for the newspaper Le Monde.
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.
