http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/23558 Tanneries « Entre l’orgueil et la honte » Deux villes, deux pays. Fez au Maroc, Bamako au Mali. Deux fois l’Afrique, deux fois ce même métier séculaire, la tannerie, vue au travers l’objectif d’un seul homme, Raymond Dakoua, photographe ivoirien établi en Belgique. Fez et Bamako, de 2005 à 2009, du Nord du Sahara au Sud, beaucoup plus pauvre. Les tanneurs donc, femmes et hommes qui font ce travail irrémédiablement associé à la puanteur, à la pourriture, aux produits acides et au labeur ; des êtres assurés d’office d’avoir une place au bas de l’échelle sociale, bien plus bas que celle occupée par les artisans qui travaillent le cuir pour en faire des babouches ou des sacs, ou par les commerçants qui les vendent par après, si possible aux touristes. Mais même là-bas, tout au fond, il existe des mondes de différence. Le voyage de Fez à Bamako ne s’effectue pas seulement du Nord vers le Sud et du mécanique vers le manuel, mais plus encore de la fierté vers la honte. De l’honneur artisanale qui existe au sein des vieilles murailles de la cité marocaine et qui donna naissance au terme maroquinerie, rien ne subsiste sur les rivages du fleuve Niger – si ce n’est la méfiance envers un photographe qui enregistre un gagne-pain caché, où les hommes commandent et les femmes exécutent, sans que quiconque ne s’en sorte vraiment. Si loin, si proches, Fez et Bamako se ressemblent aussi. Dans les deux villes le photographe a été frappé par un conflit commun : celui entre l’économie et l’écologie. Si le frottage, l’épilation, les bains et la teinture des peaux caprines et bovines prennent plusieurs semaines, ils consomment aussi une quantité d’eau invraisemblable, de l’eau qui par après est déversée sans épuration. Pour la vie, dans et autour du fleuve Niger, la tannerie est dès lors un problème de premier ordre. Alors : de quoi d’autre les travailleurs concernés devraient-ils vivre? Et comment nourrir les bouches de leurs familles nombreuses ? Entre-temps, les autorités aiment bien prononcer le mot ‘durabilité’, sans apporter de solution, elles non plus. Raymond Dakoua est diplômé de l’Ecole de Photographie de la Ville de Bruxelles. « En l’observant à travers un objectif, j’ai appris à regarder la réalité d’un autre oeil » raconte-t-il. « J’ai appris à voir comment les gens évoluent dans cette vie, comment traditions et modernités se touchent, se couvrent ou se défient. » http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/27918/RaymondDakoua1_small.jpg http://www.lightstalkers.org/Raymond Dakoua <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/972925/Sans_titre_3_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/972925'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/972925 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:51:21 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/972925 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/972925/Sans_titre_3_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/972925'>view full-size image</a> Raymond Dakoua <img 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