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SOUTH SUDAN


2004

Jamis, 2004

Soudan
Middle Format Contax 645 (detail)

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SOUTH SUDAN
2004

Female fighters and refugees

“A peace agreement was recently signed with the North. No more fighting, no more deaths. But I feel a real sense of anxiety around me. I want to get involved in this transition period. I believe that women are more gifted than men when it comes to peace.” Adak

Abstracts

"(…) The first thing that I took care of when I arrived in South Sudan was to secure the services of an interpreter. Adak was a rare gem, one of the very few South Sudanese women to stay in the country during the war, who had been to school. So graceful and gentle that it was hard to believe that she was the mother of three schoolchildren. And already a widow. Her visible fragility masked, in reality, great determination and courage. The first thing from her life that she wanted to show me was this tree: several years earlier, on the day of her wedding, her husband had engraved their names on the trunk.

(…) We set off in search of a female soldier. The military staff was all worked up because John Garang was expected to return any day from Nairobi, where he had just signed for peace. So the timing wasn’t ideal. But Adak recalled meeting, in the streets of Rumbek, a female soldier whose proud air had caught her eye. We found Jamis at the market and followed her as she, nonchalant in combat fatigues roughly rolled up over a pair of thongs, went to the barracks. She re-emerged with a fine helmet and a Kalashnikov to pose with."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

SOUTH SUDAN 1940
Mary, 2004

Camp of Rumbek, South Sudan
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 335
Adak, 2004

Camp of Rumbek, South Sudan
Acrylic on paper
41 x 32 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 333
Adak 2, 2004

Camp of Rumbek, South Sudan
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 341
Nura, 2004

Camp of Rumbek, South Sudan
Acrylic on paper
37 x 46 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 2631
Huttes de réfugiés à Rumbek, 2004

South Sudan
Acrylic on paper
32 x 82 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 338
Jamis, 2004

Garnison SPLM, Rumbek, Sud-Soudan
Silver print
60 x 40 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 339
Jamis 2, 2004

Garnison SPLM, Rumbek, Sud-Soudan
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 1951
Jamis 3, 2004

South Sudan
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 3483
Camp de réfugiés de Numrek, 2004

South Sudan
C-Print
180 x 220 cm

Maps

SOUTH SUDAN 1961
Africa 2, 2004

Acrylic and pencil on paper
80 x 120 cm

SOUTH SUDAN 1962
Africa 3, 2004

Acrylic and pencil on paper
37 x 46 cm

Books

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