GIVE A KID A CAMERADix ans après les premières photographies prises par les enfants du tristement célèbre bidonville Mathare à Nairobi, agnès b. accueille l’exposition Shootback, présentée pour la première fois en France.
La photographe américaine Lana Wong a débuté le projet Shootback en août 1997 avec Francis Kimanzi, figure clef de l’association MYSA et footballeur reconnu. Equipés de simples appareils photo en plastique, une trentaine de filles et garçons âgés de 12 à 17 ans ont photographié leur vie quotidienne, chaque semaine, durant presque deux ans. Les enfants de Mathare ont ainsi pu raconter leur histoire en s’exprimant librement à travers la photographie.
Les images et les mots des enfants de Mathare constituent un témoignage bouleversant du pouvoir qu’a la photographie de transformer le quotidien. Grâce à ce projet initié il y a plus de 10 ans, des enfants de Nairobi continuent d’être formés à la photo, et leurs travaux sont exposés aussi bien dans les bidonvilles que dans le cadre d’expositions internationales. Issu d’un des quartiers les plus pauvres d’Afrique, Shootback permet de découvrir des histoires intimes, chargées d’espoir, ainsi que des travaux récents effectués par les participants au projet, devenus pour certains photographes professionnels. L’aventure Shootback regroupe des individus exceptionnels aux histoires atypiques, l’exposition chez agnès b. activités veut rendre hommage à ces photojournalistes hors du commun.
Le projet Shootback fait écho à l’engagement d’agnès b. dans la promotion de la culture au sens large et à la mise en avant d’artistes indépendants de toutes disciplines et horizons, que ce soit via ses boutiques, la galerie du jour, Love Streams agnès b. Productions, le Point d’Ironie…
Infos: agnès b. SHOOTBACK
Ten years after the Shootback kids took their first groundbreaking pictures in Nairobi’s notorious Mathare slum, agnès b. is proud to present the original Shootback exhibition with recent work from these inspiring young photographers.
Shown for the first time in France, Shootback’s unique perspective of daily life in a country better known for its wildlife safaris takes the viewer on an unexpected journey to places where tourists rarely go. In this new show, a selection of hard-hitting images from the recent unrest in Kenya adds fresh insight into what it’s like to live in one of Africa’s toughest urban environments.
American photographer Lana Wong started the Shootback Project in August 1997 with MYSA youth leader and renown footballer Francis Kimanzi to help give young people in Nairobi’s Mathare slum a voice to tell their own stories. Equipped with 20€ plastic cameras, a group of 31 boys and girls, aged 12 to 17, photographed their lives and wrote about them every week for almost two years.
The results, from kids who had never held cameras before, were honest, raw, amusing and beautiful- these visceral images became the basis of a book called Shootback : Photos by Kids from the Nairobi Slums (Booth-Clibborn Editions, London 1999). The book was launched at the Barbican Centre, London with an exhibition that traveled to the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC ; Staff USA Gallery, New York ; Festival Mundial, Tilburg, the Netherlands Bildungszentrum der Handwerkskammer, Berlin; and Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Mali.
MORE INFORMATION: agnès b. SHOOTBACK
Ten years after the Shootback kids took their first groundbreaking pictures in Nairobi’s notorious Mathare slum, agnès b. is proud to present the original Shootback exhibition with recent work from these inspiring young photographers.
Shown for the first time in France, Shootback’s unique perspective of daily life in a country better known for its wildlife safaris takes the viewer on an unexpected journey to places where tourists rarely go. In this new show, a selection of hard-hitting images from the recent unrest in Kenya adds fresh insight into what it’s like to live in one of Africa’s toughest urban environments.
American photographer Lana Wong started the Shootback Project in August 1997 with MYSA youth leader and renown footballer Francis Kimanzi to help give young people in Nairobi’s Mathare slum a voice to tell their own stories. Equipped with 20€ plastic cameras, a group of 31 boys and girls, aged 12 to 17, photographed their lives and wrote about them every week for almost two years.
The results, from kids who had never held cameras before, were honest, raw, amusing and beautiful- these visceral images became the basis of a book called Shootback : Photos by Kids from the Nairobi Slums (Booth-Clibborn Editions, London 1999). The book was launched at the Barbican Centre, London with an exhibition that traveled to the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC ; Staff USA Gallery, New York ; Festival Mundial, Tilburg, the Netherlands Bildungszentrum der Handwerkskammer, Berlin; and Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Mali.
MORE INFORMATION: agnès b. SHOOTBACK
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3 comments:
i'm wondering if how is the exhibit!? can you please provide us with some photos?! thanks a lot!!!
I just want to say a big 'merci beaucoup' to Matthew Rose and Lalande Digital Art Press for their speedy and high quality service...we needed some last-minute printing done for the Shootback exhibition and Lalande Press turned it around quickly and professionally...and great prices to boot! Many thanks again and I would recommend Lalande to professional photographers and artists for all their digital printing needs!!
super blog, j'adore vos articles et reportages
bonne continuation
Jean Paternin
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