{"id":1614,"date":"2012-04-20T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2012-04-20T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:26:05","slug":"encore-sapeurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Encore Sapeurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interested (as I often am) by a post on Conscientious<\/em>, Joerg Colberg<\/em>‘s blog on Congolese photographer Baudouin Mouanda<\/a><\/em>, who had a show I missed at Gasworks<\/em><\/a> in Vauxhall last summer following a residency there. I quite probably walked past it, as it’s a stone’s throw from London’s best repair shop, Fixation<\/em>, and in an area I know well, from long before it had galleries, where friends of mine I visited regularly lived in a council flat close to the Oval cricket ground. The page at Gasworks has some information and a few pictures as well as installation views from three of his projects: La Sapologie<\/em>, (2008), D\u00e9lestage<\/em>, (2010) and Sur la Trottoir du Savoir<\/em>, (2011).<\/p>\n

Colberg’s post links to a set of pictures Hip Hop & soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \/ Libreville<\/a> on Afrique in Visu<\/em>, and\u00a0 to the web site of the Brazzaville Generation Elili collective<\/a> where there is some French text about Mouanda, and I also found some pictures of young women working as car mechanics<\/a> in Brazzaville I felt were of rather less interest than the other projects, along with a rather more promising set on the elections in Congo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But in some respects the most interesting work – and the image chosen by Colberg for his post came from this – was the project featured on the Leica Camera site that he links to, La Sapologie<\/a>. As well as the pictures there is also an interview with the photographer about the work.<\/p>\n

Readers of this blog with a long memory may remember that I wrote a post on Sapology<\/a> around two years ago, following the opening in London of photographer Daniele Tamagni<\/a>\u0092s ‘Gentlemen of Bacongo<\/em>‘ and the publication of his book of the same title. A portfolio of work from this project had earlier won him the portfolio prize in the Young Photographers Canon Award<\/em> 2007.<\/p>\n

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\nA sapeur poses in front of Daniele Tamagni\u0092s pictures at Michael Hoppen (Peter Marshall, 2010)<\/small><\/p>\n

It was a memorable opening in particular for the presence of one of the’ People of Elegance<\/em>‘, who I photographed for the blog. Mouanda’s (and Tamagni’s) pictures of the sapeurs <\/em>are of course very much better than my quick snaps on that occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was interested (as I often am) by a post on Conscientious, Joerg Colberg‘s blog on Congolese photographer Baudouin Mouanda, who had a show I missed at Gasworks in Vauxhall last summer following a residency there. I quite probably walked past it, as it’s a stone’s throw from London’s best repair shop, Fixation, and in … Continue reading Encore Sapeurs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}