Les Coups de Cœur pour le Prix ANI/PIXTRAKK 2020 par Stefana Fraboulet & Laetitia Guillemin 1/2

Temps de lecture estimé : 6mins

Pour leur troisième carte blanche, nos deux invitées de la semaine, Stefana Fraboulet & Laetitia Guillemin co-présidentes à l’ANI (Association nationale des iconographes), nous présentent une sélection de portfolios repérés cette année lors des lectures de portfolio organisées à Visa pour l’Image Perpignan. Ces sujets seront d’ailleurs proposés pour la 10ème édition du Prix ANI/PIXTRAKK pour remporter 5000€.

Along the sheperds’ highways
Giuseppe Nucci

Le photographe Giuseppe Nucci a suivi la transhumance italienne qui consiste à la migration du bétail dans des pâturages en fonction des saisons. Il a réalisé de magnifiques images le long des « tratturi », d’anciennes routes qui ont servi d’axes commerciaux, des siècles durant…

: Torella del Sannio (CB), Italy – May 2019. The “tratturo regio” shot from an aereal view during the passage of the herd in all its majesty. The tratturo has a specific width of 60 Neapolitan steps which correspond to about 110 meters. The width of the path is linked to the classification of the ancient paths in Tratturi, Tratturelli and Bracci. The tratturi network in central and southern Italy represents a real network of roads formed by the millenary passage of the various flocks and is a historical heritage along which sites and traditions of great cultural depth can be found. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Serracacpriola (FG), Italy -May 2019. Carmelina Colantuono, a true symbol of resilience, following the herd of 300 cattle that every year moves together with the family and the herdsmen from Puglia to Molise, for about 180 km. Carmelina, a strong and determined woman, is one of the promoters of the candidacy of transhumance to the recognition of intangible heritage of UNESCO and has always fought for the preservation of the tratturi. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Castropignano (CB), Italy – May 2019. The entry into the village of the Colantuono family herd, the last custodians of this millenary practice, on the last day of transhumance. The 300 cows, predominantly of a podolic breed, are moved towards summer pasture following ancient tradition. This is becoming a stronger and stronger source of attraction for the villages crossed along the way. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Castropignano (CB), Italy – May 2018. One of the members of the Colantuono family, in the middle of the herd, spectacularly wading across the Biferno river on the morning of the fourth day. For centuries the Biferno river with its oods represented an actual natural border. It can be crossed in the spring as its waters are lower than its normal level, usually considered too risky for humans and animals. e Colantuono are the only remaining family in Italy to bring forth the ancient tradition of the transhumance along the tratturi network. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Serracacpriola (FG), Italy – May 2019. One of the herdsmen following the Colantuono family during the annual transhumance, the last to be practiced as in ancient times from Puglia to Molise. The transit along the tratturo L’Aquila-Foggia crosses vast crops. The Tratturi are property of the state property and can be granted among other things to farmers, who erase the traces. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Moncacilioni – Femmina Morta (CB) , Italy – May 2018. One of the herdsmen rests a er the rich traditional breakfast preceding the lunch. e breakfast is based on typical products and is prepared by the sta that accompanies the Colantuono family. A er the early morning rise, a little rest is a real rite for the herdsmen, during the third day of transhumance. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Pescopennataro (Isernia), January 2018. The so-called “pig of Sant’Antonio” crossing the streets of the town on Saint Antonio day, considered the patron saint of animals. This ancient tradition is particularly felt in the villages of Central and Southern Italy along the Apennines, where the long and rigid winters forced men to bring the animals in transhumance towards grazing lands in milder climates. Accoding to the legend, the village below, Sant’Angelo del Pesco, separated from Pescopennataro by the intervention of San Michele Arcangelo, who appeared on a peach tree (Pesco in Italian) and slipped the new town downstream. The combination of Sant’Angelo in the name of the town and San Michele Arcangelo as patron saint is widespread between Abruzzo and Molise. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Campolieto (CB), Italy – May 2018. Along the Centocelle – Cortile “braccio” of the tratturo, the path crosses a wind farm built along the tratturo line. The tratturi, being state property, have often been used by local administrations to install wind farms without recurring to expropriation of private land. This was often happening before a law was passed that protected the tratturi from such kind of interventions. The Colantuono are the only remaining family in Italy to bring forth the ancient tradition of the transhumance along the tratturi network. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

: Campo Imperatore (L’Aquila), July 2018. The back of a cow grazing in the Campo Imperatore plateau, one of the largest in Central and Southern Italy and the destination for thousands of cattle looking for high-altitude pastures in the summer months. Nowadays the transport of animals takes place on trucks, allowing significant time saving to farmers. In ancient times the travel time to the Gargano was about two weeks. © Giuseppe Nucci / ANI 2020

In Central Italy the transhumance, the ancient practice of moving livestock from summer to winter pastures, is strictly connected with the network of the “tratturi”. The tratturi are ancient routes crossed by the millenary passage of herds and flocks, which for centuries represented the main network for trade.
The silent rivers of grass, whose praises were sung by the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, for centuries were the center of an economy based on the barter of primary goods such as wool, milk, lambs and cheese. Along with livestock, also knowledge and traditions travelled through the tratturi. Many of these traditions still survive in regions like Puglia, Abruzzo and Molise. The candidacy of the transhumance to the UNESCO intangible heritage by Italy represents a significant step forward towards the protection and the re-discovery of a historical and cultural heritage among the most fascinating of a hidden Italy.
As wrinkles on a face, these ancient paths designed the somatic traits of the rural civilization.
A face wrinkled by time, whose charm is expressed by the eternity of ancient practices which belong to the history of humanity.

Forgotten Guerrero
Alfredo Bosco

: The stabbed back of a 17-year-old boy found dead with his head and limbs detached. He is just one of the countless innocent victims found in Acapulco who are violently murdered to spread terror among the local population. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Displaced family in the area of Ayutla. Many live in precarious conditions without basic needs. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Members of the self-defence group of Policia Ciudadana de Leonardo Bravo holding their positions. In the municipality of Leonardo Bravo 6 villages out of 18 are under the command of Policia Ciudadana de Leonardo Bravo, which also aims at controlling the route that takes to Chilpancingo as it is a crucial point for the local, illegal, economy. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Crime scene in Acapulco. After being kidnapped in the afternoon, the victim suffered the loss of several fingers, an eye and part of the tongue. The man was brought to the hospital but died a few hours later. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Federal police patrolling the once touristic city of Acapulco. Night patrolling of the neighborhoods of Zapata. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Crime scene in Acapulco. Acapulco had a rate of 106.63 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Since the beginning of 2019, numerous attacks on part of the cartel of Los Ardillos struck the town of Rincon Chautla forcing its residents to defend themselves. Portrait of a mother with child who chose to take part in the town’s community police. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Jose Navarro next to the memorial for his brothers. He leads a Guerrero-based victims advocacy group called Siempre Vivos. He has been targeted by Los Ardillos since 2014, when he reported to police that members of the group had kidnapped and killed two of his brothers. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

: Abandoned cars in Santa Maria de las Suarez. © Alfredo Bosco / ANI 2020

Ce reportage fait un état des lieux inquiétant de la situation sociale et politique actuelle de la région du Guerrero, au Mexique. La violence ne cesse d’augmenter parmi les cartels et les groupes de défense auto-revendiqués. La population est forcée d’abandonner leurs maisons et quitter les villes.

Since its beginning in the early 2000s, the Mexican drug war has seen the state of Guerrero play a most important role. This reportage looks at the region’s current social and political situation. Violence is relentlessly on the rise amongst cartels and self-claimed defence groups and local feuds force the population to abandon their homes and towns surrendering them to a ghostly domestic conflict.
In the heart of La Montaña, a mountainous region on the eastern side of the state, the largest amapola cultivation of the country is located. Despite the military’s crack-down on production and the sharp price drop of heroin, the end product of amapola seems to see no real undermining in its share of the market.
In 2017 alone the army eradicated a total of 84,000 m2 of cultivation, 20,000 m2 more than in 2016.
Unlike other states under the control of only a single organization, Guerrero is hostage to various wars: between the cartels, between the cartels and self-claimed defence groups, and between the self-defence groups themselves. Once famous for the exotic tourist town of Acapulco, this now unclaimed territory is precious and worthy of violent internal fights which spread terror among the locals.
Existing with a very frail balance, frequent power struggles and turmoil occur within the local self-defence groups, which were once inspired by socialist and communitarian ideals. Since November, the Police of Tlacotepec has been occupying the municipality of Leonardo Bravo in the hopes of opening the way to control the capital city of Chilpancingo.
The Government is rarely present in the larger urban centres such as Chilpancingo, Acapulco and Chilapa de Alvarez. The operation “Guerrero Seguro”, which was meant to reduce violence and the number of killings, resulted solely in the confiscation of stolen vehicles and a few arrests.
It’s easy to die in Guerrero, and even easier to disappear. And as the desaparecidos abruptly become ghosts to the many families who live in the constant uncertainty of what has become of them, the empty houses and the deserted villages quickly turn into ghost towns. A disturbing silence is the only real presence. Hundreds of families enervated and tired of waiting for official action, have desperately started searching on their own for their loved ones in the woods, from Iguala to south of the region. In 2014 the disappearance of 43 students caught the attention of international media and exasperated the local population. Despite media attention, the drug cartels’ necropolitics continues to rule and imposes itself as the actual law in the region.
“There are too many bosses to deal with and too many evil people to face”, says Chilpancingo Bishop Salvador Rangel Mendoza in an effort to describe the fights between the self-defence groups who aim for the control of the illegal gold mines. In recent years the lowered profitability of heroin has reinstated gold as the sought-after resource in the mountains of Guerrero.

Grandir en centre éducatif fermé
Vincent Gerbet

Vincent Gerbet (Photos) et Philippine Donnelly (Textes) ont réalisé un documentaire sur le quotidien des jeunes placés en centre éducatif.

Visage poupon sur un corps d’adulte, Souleyman* fête tout juste ses 15 ans. Il vient de passer un an dans un centre éducatif fermé (CEF). Pendant 6 mois, la durée d’un placement initial décidé par un juge, nous avons suivi son quotidien, et celui des 8 autres adolescents âgés de 13 à 16 ans. Ce CEF se situe en lisière de la Chapelle Saint-Mesmin, une petite ville de la région Centre, à quelques minutes d’Orléans.
Malgré leur jeune âge, tous ont déjà une grande expérience de la justice, certains ont connu la prison.
Ils sont souvent privés de repères familiaux stables, en majorité déscolarisés depuis le primaire, mais encore trop jeunes pour une véritable insertion professionnelle. Autour d’eux, une équipe de 30 personnes se démène pour donner un sens à leur placement, portée par le sentiment d’agir pour des jeunes « auprès desquels tout le monde a échoué ».
Violence, absence de réel suivi éducatif et turnover des équipes, les CEF ont mauvaise réputation.
Plus de 15 ans après leur création, la ministre de la justice a annoncé il ya quelques mois sa décision d’ouvrir 20 nouveaux centres et s’apprête à réformer la justice des mineurs par ordonnance. Pour ces CEF nouvelle génération, le gouvernement dit vouloir privilégier l’accompagnement à la sortie, développer les liens avec le monde extérieur par des stages, des camps de vacances. Le CEF de la Chapelle St Mesmin applique déjà ces principes.
Pendant ces 6 mois, avec une lucidité déconcertante, les jeunes se sont ouverts sur leur passé, leurs espoirs et leur ressenti face à leur placement. Les membres de l’équipe éducative nous ont raconté leurs méthodes, leurs espérances, leurs doutes aussi et leur engagement auprès de ceux qui sont à leurs yeux « avant tout des enfants ».
Entre ennui et activités éducatives, nous vous proposons de retracer leur quotidien et leur évolution durant leur placement.

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