Still alive is a joyful desert. A plunge into the little known Egypt of the Bedouins. From spring 2000 to the summer of 2002, I shared the day-to –day life of the men and women who live in the Sinai desert, between the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, from Rafah to the shores of the Red Sea. I photograph those around me, those who invite me, who ask me to, all those who pose. Here tradition is ever-present, but my models do their best to escape it. There are veils, certainly, but also sunglasses, cigarettes, and complicitous smiles. At every encounter, I am greeted by the words : still alive ! These photographs bear witness to the humor, the enthusiasm and modernity of a little-known people. Forgotten, destitute, but very much alive. The book « Still alive » has been published in November 2009 by Actes sud in a trilingual edition.
