While war and religious conflict raging around Maaloula maintains a peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims, each making sure that the old link is not broken. This in a country where police policy ensures harmony.
As far as the persistence and the role of a language, for three trips, the authors questioned the effort of the two communities, in a smooth clear village on the heights where there is a strange Virgin resin. They also question their own performances. The three-time travel, from spring to winter, it does little or nothing going on that the village is in turmoil festive, they meet people and get lost in the streets, drag up to fiction and use of color.
Christophe Goussard is represented by Agence VU ‘
Christophe Goussard
Photographe
Born in 1970 in Blaye, lives in Bordeaux. Author artist, his position is not journalistic. He lends his gaze to all spaces rich in human experience and multiplies the registers. Attracted by the greatest contrasts, he turns to open and remote spaces on residences with long courts as well as closed and very close environments.
From one project to another, the human who was until then the central object of his research, is fading. The figure is now only required as a presence in the landscape and places full of history.
He has published several books at Filigranes, including the last Goodbye to the river with Christophe Dabitch in 2016. It is distributed by the agency VU ‘.
Christophe Dabitch
Auteur
Born in 1968. Writes books in different forms in collaboration with designers and photographers. Anticipating or concluding travels between a documentary approach and fictional stories, these books have geographical framework for Africa, the Balkans, France and Syria. He works at the crossroads of genres, between documentary and interiority, between history and the intimate.