Author L'Œil de la Photographie

During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, I documented the ordinary man and the country’s hopes. FIFA was supposed to help with infrastructure, people had hoped to benefit from the event,…

Christian Caujolle: You are the curator of the Biennale de Bamako for the second time. What has changed ? Laura Serani: Many things have changed on many levels since 2009. New…

Their lives are close to the sea, they go to the sea to communicate with God, they need God to sustain themselves, their faith and their beliefs. This project is…

I write photographs so that I won’t forget. Things press in on me, things howl – I remember the war of 1998. And even today gunfire is still heard in…

This place has its own special light. You’re never alone here, never lost. Everything seems charged with energy. Kraftwerk means “energy supplier” or “power station”. This piece is the poetic…

I decided to take pictures of children being taught how to plant trees, because a country’s youth is its future and there’s no future without reforestation. This series of explanatory…

For one hundred years the Gécamines company has been operating copper mines in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After all these years, toxic waste have…

A few years ago I took pictures of strolling street vendors in Niamey. The negatives remained in a drawer until last January, when the self-immolation of a similar vendor set…