In 1975 at the time of the famous Claustre affair Marie-Laure de Decker met and spent nearly two years photographing the Frolinat rebels, the National Liberation Front of Chad.
This was a completely original series of thirty or so images of soldiers that posed majestically, unprecedented in the world of photojournalism.
Marie-Laure de Decker, whose career started with the surrealists, went on to Vietnam from 1970 to 1972. She then worked for the famous Gamma photo agency. In the 80s, she followed the fall of apartheid in South Africa until the advent of Mandela.
She then concentrated on set photography. In 2000, a retrospective was devoted to her at the MEP. She then left to live with the Woodaabe, a tribe in Southern Chad.
Marie-Laure de Decker has just been awarded the Planète Albert Kahn prize (PIPAK photography 2012).
Marie-Laure de Decker: Désert
Festival Image Singulières
8 – 26 May, 2013
Boulodrome Agrocanet
Sète
France
