Aquifère

Aquifère is an edition born of our research carried out last summer in the Baronnies valley (Drôme Provençale), where we went to meet dowsers, people who are said to have the know-how and dowsing skills to sense and find water. For a month, we photographed their practices and collected their stories, as well as those of other valley inhabitants with a strong link to water resources and the issues at stake: farmers, livestock breeders, hydrogeologists, drillers, local elected representatives…
It is through this research on the sourcellerie, symbolic of a sensitive and rural know-how, that we wish to question the use, exploitation and sharing of water, a vital resource under great strain, and the ecological and political issues that arise from it.