The Lumière des Roses Gallery in Montreuil exhibits an exceptional collection of photographs gathered by the duo at the head of the place. Marion and Philippe Jacquier have collected over the past fifteen years touching images that show the common people who worked in factories at the dawn of the 20th century.
The black face of a “galibot” – nickname for the young laborers who once went down in the coal mines – these starving children portrayed in Germinal, these hard-staring foremen who strained themselves on endless working chains … The photographs gathered by Marion and Philippe Jacquier show how much these beings were exposed to the monsters of yesteryear machinery, to unfriendly bosses, as “good enough to do everything”, “cheap brick” to use the words from a poem from Aragon.
