Everything does not shine in the Camargue, and even less so in the everyday lives of the men and women living there: the guardians, the manadiers and the bulls. That is what Gaëlle Henkens and Roger Job discovered.
Soleil Noir (Black Sun) is the outcome of a lengthy process of work accomplished by the two photojournalists during their four years in Camargue. Years during which they immersed themselves in the everyday lives of several horse and bull breeders, in those families of manadiers (herders) who not only passed on their passion to them but also their hopes and fears.
After more than 176 days spent shooting photographs and recording countless images, the photographers attempted to understand and relate the tale of a unique culture that erects statues and tombs to the glory of its bulls in the villages of the Rhône delta. Soleil noir conveys to us with elegance a strange passion for the bull, a special devotion that has nothing to do with Spanish bullfighting, because in Camargue, people play with the bull but do not kill it. God is the animal, not the man that approaches it!
Picture: © G. HENKENS
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Museum of Photography, Avenue Paul Pastur 11 6032 Charleroi Museum of PhotographyEverything does not shine in the Camargue, and even less so in the everyday lives of the men and women living there: the guardians, the manadiers and the bulls. That is what Gaëlle Henkens and Roger Job discovered.
Soleil Noir (Black Sun) is the outcome of a lengthy process of work accomplished by the two photojournalists during their four years in Camargue. Years during which they immersed themselves in the everyday lives of several horse and bull breeders, in those families of manadiers (herders) who not only passed on their passion to them but also their hopes and fears.
After more than 176 days spent shooting photographs and recording countless images, the photographers attempted to understand and relate the tale of a unique culture that erects statues and tombs to the glory of its bulls in the villages of the Rhône delta.
Soleil noir conveys to us with elegance a strange passion for the bull, a special devotion that has nothing to do with Spanish bullfighting, because in Camargue, people play with the bull but do not kill it. God is the animal, not the man that approaches it!
Picture: © G. HENKENS
Practical information (opening hours, admission fees, etc.)