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PRESENTATION

Gilles Saussier accompanies those who live in landscapes or cross through them. What interests him is the way landscapes become a territory, an object for individual or collective appropriation, on the fringe of the great logic of national and regional development and industrial agriculture. Photojournalist with the Gamma agency from 1989 to 1994, he covered events such as the Rumanian uprising in Timisoara, the first Golf War and the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh, a country he then returned to several times and where he lived for two years. The Studio Shakari Bazar documents just as much the story of the people in this district of the Dhaka old town as that of the photographer himself. The same goes for his Retour au pays in the Epte Valley (a project presented at the Documenta XI) and the portraits of a sociologically complex population, that of the area surrounding Paris. Photography works like a documentary here, neither solely anthropological, nor solely artistic.