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WHEN LIGHT WILL TOUCH AFRICA | QUAND L’AFRIQUE S’ÉCLAIRERA | AFRIKA WIRD LEUCHTEN
“As we live without electricity, from 7 pm we feel as if we were living in a grave.” Joseph Honnon, Adido, Benin.
Pascal Maitre, one of the most famous photographers covering Africa, and Jean-Marc Gonin, seasoned reporter for the Figaro Magazine, have teamed up to document the lives of hundreds of millions of Africans deprived of any access to electricity: 70 % of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity.
AMAZING AFRICA
or 30 years and with deep journalistic passion, French photographer Pascal Maitre has put this most exciting continent on his agenda. His watchful and incorruptible eye has found gorgeous, captivating images in places where political and social upheaval shook the world. The pictures were published in big-name magazines such as GEO, Paris Match, L’Express, Stern and National Geographic. In his photographs Maitre subtly uses angle, light, contrast and colour to document Africa, touchingly, full of magic and fascination, with a deep respect for the African people. AMAZING AFRICA is the work of one of the most outstanding photographers of our times.