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©Les Nivaux,   photogtaphie. Eve 90x130cm

When they work for the Hand to Hand series, Pascale & Thierry are always very far from the stolen image. A scanning session becomes a round table... it's not only a photographic medium, it's also a place. A place for meetings, encounters, exchanges and communion. In Africa, for example, they are inspired by the traditional communal meal, where everyone sits on the ground around the dish to share it. They set up their scanner on the floor, and invited a group of women to join their hands on the glass plate. Behind each scanned hand, there is necessarily the story of this person and a story between him and the artists, as when they scan the hands of a former guard of a Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia.

“This series made us live incredible human adventures!  In Djenné in Mali, we waited 2 weeks, installed with our truck in the public square before managing to organize a scan session in a neighboring village. Victims of our success, all the women of the village were there and could not escape any hand! A whole day in a traditional hut, the scanner hooked up to our 4x4, and a temperature exceeding 50°C [...]  »

Les Nivaux

Hand to hand

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©Les Nivaux, scanning sessions in Africa in 2010 & in Cambodia in 2016

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©Les Nivaux,   photogtaphie. Adam - Adam & Eve - La main - Autoportrait à la pomme 

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