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ChAD


2004

Fatmé, Khadija, Mariam, 2004

Camp de réfugiés du Darfour
Gouache sur papier (detail)

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ChAD
2004

Darfur refugees

“Yes, I’m beautiful. Beauty comes from being alive. What drives me to get up in the morning? I get up to fetch water from the well. I go to the well and I come back. In the evening, I go to bed.” Halimé

Abstracts

"(…) Over a few months, in Chad, along the Sudanese border, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) urgently set up eleven camps to meet the exodus of 300,000 persons. A majority of women and children crossed the border to flee the Janjaweed militia supported by Khartoum’s troops. The Tulum camp, in the Iriba region, is in the north, where the Sahel turns into desert.

(…) Halimé belongs to the Fur ethnic group (Dar-fur, 'the house of the Furs'). One day, fighters sprang from the sky and from trucks, either governmental troops or the Janjaweed Arab militia – or perhaps both. She doesn’t know. They bombarded, pillaged and set fire to her village. They killed men and stole the livestock. Halimé had two sons. In the midst of the panic, she saw her elder son flee with his grandmother. To this day she doesn’t know what became of them or whether they survived. They slit the throat of the younger one, who she was holding in her arms, before carrying her off along with six other girls from the village."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

ChAD 2086
Zanouba, 2004

Chad
Acrylic and sand on paper
46 x 37 cm

ChAD 2088
Zanouba 2, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
46 x 37 cm

ChAD 2606
Quartier Zaghawa, 2004

Chad
C-Print
160 x 300 cm

ChAD 2608
Bienvenue au camp, 2004

Chad
Silver print
40 x 50 cm

ChAD 2610
Nayalta, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

ChAD 2096
Camp d'Iridimi, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

ChAD 295
Deborah, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
46 x 37 cm

ChAD 297
La chambrette de la caporale, 2004

Chad
C-Print (reframed)
120 x 215 cm

ChAD 2615
Manœuvre, 2004

Chad
C-Print
110 x 270 cm

ChAD 293
Halimé, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
46 x 37 cm

ChAD 2617
Halimé, camp de Djabal, 2004

Chad
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm

ChAD 289
Khadija, 2004

Tchad
Silver print
30 x 24 cm

ChAD 287
Fatmé, Khadija, Mariam, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

ChAD 2619
Fatmé et Mariam, 2004

Chad
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

Maps

ChAD 281
Map of Darfur, 2004

Gouache and pencil on paper
46 x 37 cm

ChAD 283
Map of Africa, 2004

Acrylic on paper
80 x 120 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Portrait of Halimé

© Gwen Le Bras

Illustration Making Of
Camp of Iridimi, 2004

© Gwen Le Bras

Illustration Making Of
Camp of Iridimi 2, 2004

© Gwen Le Bras

Books

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