Tour de Manifs – Liberation

It is certainly necessary to be more than two to validate the formation of a procession worthy of the name, but that is still enough to create a union which – it is well known – is strength. On the one hand, therefore, Amnesty International, the planetary NGO which claims a dozen millions of members and has been defending human rights for more than sixty years. On the other hand, Myop, a French photographers agency created in 2005 – with a workforce composed of around twenty members to date, with three -quarters of male – which has also erected the commitment in cardinal value, which has already led him to walk alongside Doctors Without Borders, OECD or Catholic Secours.

The name Myop is an acronym refering to the first words of a poem by Paul Eluard: « My eyes, patient objects, were forever open to the extent of the seas where I was drowning … » And it is through this same author that we publish today the banns between the NGO and the collective, which also collaborates regularly with Release. Vibrating title, both an exhibition (outdoors) and a book (in « Italian » format, that is to say in the direction of the width) joint, « they were suddenly » is extracted from Bring to life. A text published in 1944, which also says « They joined in their hearts the hope of the coming time. »

Now, it is indeed hope that there is a question here, just like, among other things, courage, solidarity, indignation, obstinacy, fie