Society Islands
“I’ve always been allergic to misery. What fun we’ve had! I’ve had six babies, and look at me! When I was pregnant, people would only notice after seven months, if that… I’d give birth, then get up, no problem!” Janine
Abstracts
"Even her fears make her laugh! Janine is a festival. Her house on the lagoon is a festival. Janine was a midwife before Sylvain seduced her with his guitar and singing while she was on night duty. And Janine, in turn, seduced Sylvain – so much so that the big reporter-adventurer ended up setting down his bags on the island. He would no longer photograph anything other than the beauty of the vahines who, still today, inspire the advertising brochures distributed by the pimps of exoticism.
Janine was his muse. When I visited, she organized a party. A party of the kind that was no longer seen. Lunch stretched out long into the night in front of the lagoon. It was the picture of another era, loyal to the shots taken by her adored husband. A throwback to the time before the 'bomb', before a jumble of religious excess built up to the point of overwhelming God Himself, though people have now got used to it. The time before misery replaced a poverty that didn’t even go by a name."
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![POLYNESIA 2752](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_poe.jpg?itok=2VEEq_eB)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache enhanced silver print
35 x 45 cm
![POLYNESIA 2754](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_poe2.jpg?itok=z2KhWSsl)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm
![POLYNESIA 2756](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_poe3.jpg?itok=SphtgjHH)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache on paper
66 x 50 cm
![POLYNESIA 2758](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_port_de_papeete.jpg?itok=tNGS6dqz)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache enhanced silver print
50 x 83 cm
![POLYNESIA 2760](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_beatrice.jpg?itok=k1bOoYwG)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm
![POLYNESIA 2762](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_heiata_ravavae.jpg?itok=Um0KZrBs)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache enhanced silver print
66 x 42 cm
![POLYNESIA 3528](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_heiata.jpg?itok=Ilz_NT_U)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm
![POLYNESIA 2772](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_tifaifai_de_heiata.jpg?itok=PHilUvcx)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Tissu
170 x 182 cm
![POLYNESIA 2775](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_sabrina.jpg?itok=Us__COne)
Tahaa, French Polynesia
Gouache and pencil on paper
40 x 30 cm
![POLYNESIA 2777](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_sabrina2.jpg?itok=z2o7QBPD)
Tahaa, French Polynesia
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm
![POLYNESIA 2781](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_sabrina3.jpg?itok=H-9WVDoV)
Tahaa, French Polynesia
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm
![POLYNESIA 2782](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_nuit_etoilee_a_tahaa.jpg?itok=QlUq-S-Y)
French Polynesia
Gouache on paper
33 x 42 cm
![POLYNESIA 2784](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_janine.jpg?itok=v8R-dHkc)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm
![POLYNESIA 3530](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_janine2.jpg?itok=I8puh7Ou)
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Silver print
30 x 40 cm
Maps
![POLYNESIA 2749](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_polynesie_societes.jpg?itok=zxHqneQP)
Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm
![POLYNESIA 2751](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_polynesie_societes_2.jpg?itok=2FiPJl3g)
Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm