THERE IS NO AGE TO JOURNEY TOWARDS ONESELF…

Setting out on a pilgrimage path means embarking on a quest for oneself, being shaken up, losing north, south, east, and west! An initiation that forces us to renounce our bearings and beliefs, to encounter the essential. Of Franco-Peruvian origin, Céline Anaya Gautier has always been drawn to the rites of passage of ancient civilizations.

FOXHUNTING - AT THE CROSSROADS OF WORLDS, or our relationship with wild nature and death!

Vegetarian and phobic of dogs since childhood, Céline Anaya Gautier discovers foxhunting by chance during a walk in the Fontainebleau forest. Intrigued by the spectacle she witnesses, she is fascinated by the discovery of this new world, which encourages her to talk about it. The verdict is in: Foxhunting is BAD!

NOT EVERYONE IS DESCENDED FROM LOUIS XIV...

I never imagined, when starting this subject on foxhunting in France, that I would create a gallery of portraits of hunters outside the forests. But there you have it... Every time I tried to explain or convey the experience I had just had in the world of foxhunting, before I could even open my mouth, it was objected that the hunters were rich bourgeois who had nothing better to do than chase a poor defenseless animal.

COMPOSTELA WORDS OF PILGRIMS.

Compostela is an initiatory path that leads the human being to its highest peaks and to the depths of its abysses, silencing the ills of the body to enter the heart of the soul. There, by taking a step back, we can glimpse the meanders that prevent us from moving forward, from realizing dreams and challenges, and the links that unite us all and the connections between the different events of life come to light.

SANTIAGO IN THE LAND OF COMPOSTELA.

Of Franco-Peruvian origin through his mother, Santiago, 7 years old, must accomplish a rite of passage to become a little man. He decides to walk to Compostela. A test where, to become a little man, he will have to surpass himself, physically but also emotionally and spiritually. Céline, his mother, a photographer, will accompany him on this extraordinary adventure.

SLAVE IN PARADISE

Uncle Tom's Cabin has never disappeared. Near the Dominican beaches, hidden behind a screen of sugar cane, entire families from Haiti survive in bateys, groups of unsanitary wooden shacks without water or electricity. Once you embark on the path of the bateys, there is no escaping this hell.

HEART OF WOMEN.

The number of these excluded women has been increasing for 10 years. In 2005, the Halte Femmes in Paris, one of the reception centers where they can rest, received more than 25,000 women. The majority of them are in a very fragile state, both physically and mentally. This fragility is all the heavier for women from abroad, who have lost all their bearings.

HIBAKUSHAS - PORTRAITS OF A SECOND GENERATION.

August 1945, the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the nuclear bomb. This decision cost the lives of more than 200,000 people, killed by the explosion, heat and subsequent fires. In addition, there were deaths that occurred later due to various types of cancers and pathologies.

UNIDAD ESCOLAR PATACANCHA.

Located in the Cusco region of Peru, at an altitude of 4800 meters, the Unidad Escolar Patacancha school welcomes children from the region. The sons and daughters of farmers, most of them have to walk more than 4 hours before reaching the school, which is inaccessible by bus. There they learn the basics: reading, writing and especially counting.

ESPIRITU DE ANACONDA

Espiritu de Anaconda is a center located about a hundred kilometers from the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. This center is run by the famous shaman Guillermo Arevalo, a Shipibo healer. Guillermo, initially educated in his community, was immersed in a tradition of healers, ayahuasqueros and medicine men.

50 YEARS... 50 LAUREATES!

As a sort of pious wish, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet wanted to thank "heaven" for returning safe and sound from the war and for being able to rebuild the Publicis agency by creating the Fondation de la Vocation in 1960. In turn, he wanted to give young people driven by a vocation a chance.

POROSUS - ENDOWMENT FUND

The Porosus endowment fund's mission is to help emerging young talents in the sports and artistic fields. It aims to support and promote their careers.