honorable mention
Raphaël Pasquini switzerland
title
Francis was there
The crowd has been waiting for hours. She's calm. Collected. Francis is already present, on the screens, the key chains, the bags. The decor is in place. Security is watching.
Then, around 4 pm, he enters the huge hall. The crowd gets up, shouts, rushes over the fences.
Raphaël Pasquini spent the day among all these people. He tells their story from the inside, in the heart of the excitement created by Francis, this powerful but also very lonely man.
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entry description
Geneva. June 21st, 2018. 35,000 people came from all over Europe to see and hear Pope Francis. It’s an event, because he came to talk about ecumenism, about fraternity between religions.The crowd has been waiting for hours. She's calm. Collected. Francis is already present, on the screens, the key chains, the bags. The decor is in place. Security is watching.
Then, around 4 pm, he enters the huge hall. The crowd gets up, shouts, rushes over the fences.
Raphaël Pasquini spent the day among all these people. He tells their story from the inside, in the heart of the excitement created by Francis, this powerful but also very lonely man.
about the photographer
Raphaël Pasquini photographs subjects for social and documentary purposes. In Switzerland, he has: exhibited since 1992, founded an association around the image[baryte] until 2010. He met women prisoners in prison and conducted photo workshops through which they shared their stories. From September 2010 to March 2011, he collaborated with the rezo photo agency in Geneva. Abroad, he lived during a summer to the rhythm of the slums of Lima, alongside an NGO; made portraits of the inhabitants; presented the result of this work in Lausanne in 2010. In Paris, for several weeks, he slipped into the Mont-de-Piété, sitting next to the assessors, he met the engagists from France and elsewhere, before publishing his report in the magazine Ithaque. Selected for the swiss openshow in 2013, he has held several solo and group exhibitions since then, and regularly participates in book illustration. His projects have in common that they represent the human being in his or her life context, question the interaction between the individual and the collective, and seek to "say" about the shards of our society.back to gallery