The approach of this photography collective, Les Associés, is interesting. So we’re publishing them.
Publicized as “the La Teste and Landiras fires,” the mega-fires in southern Gironde followed the fires in Australia and preceded the equally gigantic ones in the Canadian forest. Beyond the factual causes, the 2022 fires lay bare the challenges facing an entire region: how can we rebuild part of the largest forest massif in Europe? How can we reconcile private forests with societal needs? Should we reconsider our relationship with our environment?
As a form of investigation, the collective’s photographers delved deep into the vanished forest to understand its issues, contradictions, and especially the relationship of the inhabitants to what is commonly called a capitalist monospecific forest. As the project progressed, lines of questioning emerged from the collective work: the disappearance of the landscape, inhabiting it, and the coexistence of common good/private property, biodiversity, inhabitants and their diversity, nature and its resilience.
The photographers: Alban Dejong, Alexandre Dupeyron, Élie Monferier, Olivier Panier des Touches, Michaël Parpet, Joël Peyrou
LesAssociés : 600°
from April 1 to September 28, 2025
écomusée de Marquèze
500 Rte de Solférino
40630 Sabres, France
https://www.marqueze.fr/
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