Trans Photographic Press has just published « MéMWA », a photography book by Philippe Monges, which explores slavery and the slave trade. The title means “memory” in Creole. Making full use of his 135 film, Monges photographs the traces of slavery, which are still visible on shores and oceans, in ports, plantations and bourgeois, colonial and military architecture. Monges’ photographs show these places of confinement and bondage, of toil and suffering, of struggle and death.
The sixty black-and-white photographs are associated with texts and poems written by Doudou Diene, Edouard J. Maunick, Frédéric Régent and Françoise Vergès.
« MéMWA »
Sur les traces de l’esclavage et de la traite négrière
Photographs by Philippe Monges
Texts by Doudou Diene, Edouard J. Maunick, Frédéric Régent et Françoise Vergès
Editions Trans Photographic Press
Format 21,5 x 30 cm, à l’italienne
128 pages, 61 photographs
IEAN : 9791090371194
Prix : 35 Euros
