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Mali


2000

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Mali
2000

Timbuktu with Raymond Depardon

"This project scared me a little. Drawing on photos taken by someone else… It might have seemed pretentious. But the desert changes perspectives, erases inhibitions. When I arrived in Timbuktu, I started drawing. (…)" Titouan

Abstracts

“I think that what’s difficult about travelling is looking at things, at the world. The fact that you were born in Morocco makes me think of Thesiger. Thesiger was born in Ethiopia. He spent all of his early childhood somewhere in the hills and this forged a different kind of man. I have the impression that things are more or less the same with you. It no doubt makes sense that you feel comfortable everywhere. I’ve never known that, and at the same time, I travelled early on, as a press photographer, without even knowing that this was travelling.

There’s a type of demagogy that would have us look at the world when we travel, and yet, you also look at yourself. There’s something contradictory about travelling: it’s a mirror of yourself, and at the same time, a type of tolerance, generosity, openness of mind towards others, which is unparalleled. There’s this sort of contradiction which is always present.”

Raymond Depardon, extract from Rêve de déserts, 2000, Éditions Gallimard

Works

Mali 3330
Plante et Trace dans le désert, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

Mali 3303
Arbre du désert, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
20 x 27 cm

Mali 3338
Portrait de femme, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
20 x 27 cm

Mali 3297
Femme assise, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
20 x 27 cm

Mali 3295
Deux femmes assises, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
20 x 27 cm

Mali 3310
Aicha et vent de sable, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

Mali 3316
Plantes et Dune, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

Mali 3312
Tribune offcielle du stade omnisport, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache enhanced silver print
20 x 54 cm

Mali 3332
Mosquée Sankoré, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
20 x 27 cm

Mali 3301
Vue du sémaphore de Tombouctou, 2000

Mali
Gouache on paper
20 x 27 cm

Mali 3322
Tente touareg, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
28 x 38 cm

Mali 3314
Sur la piste de Tombouctou à Araouane, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache enhanced silver print
20 x 56 cm

Mali 3307
Plante du désert, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 cm

Mali 3326
Touareg dans le désert, 2000

Timbuktu, Mali
Gouache on paper
28 x 38 cm

Books

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