PIERRE MERIMEE: THE SOUTH

jdenis — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:39:12 +0000

After graduating from the Duperre School, Paris, and studied at the Kingston University, London, Pierre developed a passion for photography, increasing after he left the design studios to get fresh air with the dongas tribe in Somerset, UK (1996). From this journey results his first publication in Liberation, famous french daily newspaper. After a trip in South Africa to document the situation post apartheid, he moved to Sao Paulo for 3 years.

Since 2001 he move back to Europe, first in Paris and then based in Catalunya, in a middle of nowhere, at the frontier between France and Spain. Here, not so far from Barcelona or Toulouse, he has contributed to a variety of magazines such as El Mundo, L’Express, Geo France, Intersection, Le Monde and Time Magazine among others. He also regularly cover for various magazines the Sonar Festival …

He is involved in long-term projects as documenting life of Campo Limpo Sao Paulo public, migrants conditions in Paris, or afro-american musical community in Paris, and Internally displaced in Colombia (screened at Visa in Perpignan – 2002/2006/2008). His work about Palestinian rappers was shown at the “nuit de l’année” in Arles (2008) with Voxpop Magazine, published as a book by Lo/A in 2014 and is exposed at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (March-July 2015, collective exhibition Du Bronx au rues arabes).

A track for the view…

Once I Had A Love, aka The Disco Song by Blondie (Early Demo Version)

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PIERRE MERIMEE: THE SOUTH