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The Battle of Sivens - Portraits

Introduction:

From the end of August 2014 - the period of the beginning of the construction of the dam at Sivens - until the evacuation of the Testet ZAD (Zone À Défendre) in March 2015, I documented as much as possible the sequence of events (see the Battle of Sivens Part 1 and 2).

Here are grouped together a series of portraits taken during that period. Because I was rarely able to photograph people who wanted "retstraint" at Sivens (i.e pro-dam types) I only have dam opponents in this series (or "zadistes" as they are generally called).

My thanks to those who allowed me to take their pictures (and to those you don't find in this series but might have been!)


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