parinoir

Nicolas Silatsa
parinoir

Photographs: Nicolas Silatsa

Text: A. Melon-Degras & Jean Claude Pomonti

Publisher: Self published

144 pages

Pictures: 116

Year: 1981

ISBN: 2-903683-00-X

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 28,5 x 22 cm, b&w photographs. layout by Nicolas Silatsa. Binding is fragile otherwise In good condition. Extremely rare!

"We are all half-breeds of someone.
We are also today or tomorrow
IMMIGRANTS" OR
OR "NOMADS".
It is love between peoples
Freedom, equality or fraternity?
I would not like to interfere in the internal problems
of the host country,
I do not want to judge, nor criticize, nor
nor would I want to criticize,
I am only a WITNESS
A LIEUTENANT of justice, equality and brotherhood
fraternity between the people.
Photography is a means of information
and everyone can read a
PICTURE.
I leave it to the readers to judge,
I would also like this TESTIMONY to serve as a warning
I would also like this testimony to serve as a warning to all those for whom
for whom PARIS is still a dream.

* From Biology to Culture.

J. RUFFIE, 1978.

Photography is a tam-tam

Photography is a language, a pedagogy, an art
as the Tam-Tam is a language, a messenger, an art.
Listen to
Listen to the tam-tam
From so far, so far away
Of the high voices of your ancestors
Listen to the tam-tam
The symbol of the Black People.
This color that is life
This color which is heat
This color that is light
This innocent color that is victim...

July 1980