For its fourteenth edition, the National Association of Iconographers (ANI) is showing three photographers chosen from among the favourites at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan in 2016. The winners are being shown at the École de l’Image des Gobelins in Paris from November 6th to December 14th2017. The ANI has organised a lecture at the same address on December 7 th 2017 from 6.30pm to 8.00pm.
In Africa there is a superstition that says that drinking an “albino potion” brings good luck. For this reason the bounty hunters track them down, mutilate and kill them to get the necessary ingredients for this highly-prized brew. However their real enemy is the sun. The absence of melanin and the lack of adequate protection from the sun results in skin cancer that reduces their life expectancy to less than thirty years. Tanzania is the country with the greatest number of albinos in the world. The government has found it necessary to build refuges to protect them from the clutches of unscrupulous traffickers. At the refuge they are taught how to protect themselves from skin cancer and about the fatal consequences of a lack of protection against ultraviolet. This report shows what daily life in Kabanga, an albino refuge, looks like. It also spotlights the work done by NGOs, pharmacists and doctors who fight against the discrimination and stigmatisation suffered by this vulnerable community.
Ana Palacios
With a degree in communication, Ana Palacios studied cinema and photography at UCLA (Los Angeles). She worked as a journalist for television programmes for more than fifteen years as co-production coordinator for international films, with directors such as Ridley Scott, Milos Forman, Jim Jarmush and Roman Polanski.
Les visas de l’ANI
Lecture on 7th December 2017
6.30pm – 8.00pm
Gobelins L’Ecole de l’Image
73 boulevard Saint Marcel
75013 Paris
France
