Le dos de l'histoire

Dive into the image of an anonymous man’s back, tattooed with a series of signs, and venture out to grasp a little of what it was like at the beginning of the 20th century; travel to the four corners of the world thanks to this “talking scar”; meet and reveal a people who have remained invisible to our eyes ever since, using autochromes preserved in the archives of the Albert-Kahn planet.

“I’m in the middle. I’m in the middle of stories. They encircle me, they surround me, they suffocate me. Because images, believe me, make stories. Don’t believe those who peremptorily assert: “wise as a picture”. On the contrary, they’re very agitated, animated, I should say. You can’t just put them in a box; you have to deal with them. And I have to deal with them. They’ll have to get along, accept that I’m classifying them, ordering them, describing them, translating them into words.”