beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Pop’Africa retraces forty years of travels across the African continent. Myriam Viallefont-Haas has always taken an artistic and committed look at a rich and complex Africa. That of refugees in Somalia, that of the struggle for independence in Namibia, that of the daily life of the Maasai people and the protection of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. This desert Africa, mysterious, traditional, but also modern, vibrant, and independent, which she renews our view of thanks to her eye as a photographer and artist in these painted photographs. Her works are like windows opening onto Africa, where each color and each texture tells of the challenges and beauty of this continent. Her photographs, paintings, and painted photos merge in her creative universe, where she combines the brush with the lens. “When I take a photo, I see a painting,” explains the artist, who loves photography for its speed, and painting for its slowness and meditative nature…

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