"Hopes at close range" is a chronicle of the social struggles I had the opportunity to document in Nantes and the surrounding area over the past six years.
Right to housing, right to asylum, ZAD of Notre-Dame des Landes, Labour Law, Yellow Vests movement, antifascist demonstrations, fight for equality between women and men, mobilization against the Global Security law...
So many issues and claims that have made society vibrate over the past years. So many movements that were often violently repressed, questioning the doctrine of policing, police violence, but more broadly the deeply rooted feeling of a deep and lasting rupture between those who lead and those who occupy the streets, Saturday after Saturday.
This logbook of the different social, economic and environmental struggles that took place in the streets of Nantes is the chronicle of an era told by those who take to the streets.
Act 2 of the Yellow Vests
Nantes, France - 2018
A barricade in front of the Donges refinery during a social movement against the "Labor Law"
Donges, France - 2016
Yellow Vests Demonstration
Nantes, France - 2019
Rally to celebrate the abandonment of the airport project
ZAD of Notre-Dame-Des-Landes, France - 2018
Demonstration against gender-based and sexual violence
Nantes, France - 2019
A protester jumps over a flaming trash can during a "yellow vests" rally
Nantes, France - 2019
Demonstration against gender-based and sexual violence
Nantes, France - 2020
A Porsche burns in front of the Loire-Atlantique prefecture on the sidelines of a demonstration against the "Labor Law"
Nantes, France - 2016
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Photographs from this reportage have been published in the newspapers and magazines Le Monde, Pélerin, La Croix, Marianne, Politis