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La CAMARGUE
Salt rises to the surface. It crystallises, tears through the earth, breaks it open. Oxygen, light, pigments and heat collide and fuse. Colours emerge, burn, clash and transform.
Nothing stands still. Everything breathes, ferments, burns and is born again.
The Camargue is a land laid bare. A living, raw, almost animal force, where the elements fight as fiercely as they embrace. The sun bites, the wind sculpts, the water seeps in, the salt devours.
Here, nature does not create a landscape. It imposes its own laws.
Men, animals and earth belong to the same flesh, the same violence, the same untamed beauty.
This is a land that sweats, bleeds and burns. A land where colour is no longer merely colour, but a force. Where matter becomes instinct.
The Camargue is not a place to be looked at. It is a place to be felt beneath the skin.
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
11 Nov 2026
In the Camargue, summer fades into road dust, the heat of cars, nights beneath canvas. Wind-worn faces, laughter, departures. We found one another there, just long enough to become a memory. Then the light shifted, as if it had only dreamed us. For one brief, incandescent moment, we were utterly alive.
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
26 Oct 2026
LA CAMARGUE
White horse. Pink water. Black mud. Bare feet in the heat.
In the Camargue, tenderness and violence share the same light.
15 Oct 2026
Wally. A woman of fire. A life shaped by passion, memory and story. Her words come quickly, her voice carries, and Arles lives in everything she tells.
She gave her body to the beauty of Lucien Clergue’s photographs. But when she speaks, another portrait comes into view: a woman fiercely alive, free, and entirely her own.
What a joy to have met her. To hear her voice. To feel, in her presence, the force and the joy of being a woman.
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
12 Oct 2026
In the Camargue, every road must be earned.
In summer, the earth cracks. Dust and dead grass rise from it. After the rain, the ground sinks and holds the water.
Still, there is always a way through.
Reeds bend in the wind. Flamingos flash across the lagoons. In the distance, white horses follow a tractor.
We drive slowly. The tyres bite into the earth. The light shifts. A bird cries. Then silence.
That is the Camargue: a land that resists, and sometimes lets you in.
07 Oct 2026
THESE IMAGES TELL SOMETHING OF MY CHILDHOOD.
I GREW UP ON A MANADE IN THE CAMARGUE.
THE BULLS WERE THERE. THE HORSES TOO.
THEIR BREATH, THEIR STRENGTH, THE DUST, THE HEAT.
FEAR WAS PART OF THE LANDSCAPE.
AS A CHILD, I LEARNED NOT ALWAYS TO STEP BACK.
TO STAY WHEN EVERYTHING IN ME SAID RUN.
TO FIGHT MY FEARS, AND PERHAPS, EVEN THEN, TO FIGHT SOMETHING IN MYSELF.
WITH ANIMALS, THERE IS NO PRETENDING.
THEY KNOW FEAR.
THEY KNOW HESITATION.
YOU HAVE TO BE THERE. ENTIRELY.
I GREW UP CLOSE TO SOMETHING RAW, FREE, SOMETIMES VIOLENT, BUT ABSOLUTELY ALIVE.
THAT IS WHERE I UNDERSTOOD, LONG BEFORE I HAD WORDS FOR IT, THAT THERE IS SOMETHING ANIMAL IN US TOO.
I THINK I HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHING IT EVER SINCE.
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
28 Sep 2026
THERE IS THE HORSE.
THERE IS THE MAN.
THERE IS THE BULL.
AND BETWEEN THEM, THAT NARROW SPACE WHERE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
THEY MOVE FORWARD, PULL AWAY, RETURN.
THEY KNOW EACH OTHER THROUGH BREATH, WEIGHT, FEAR, STRENGTH.
SOMETIMES IT LOOKS LIKE A FIGHT.
LOOK CLOSER. IT IS A DANCE.
AN ANCIENT CHOREOGRAPHY, ALMOST MYTHOLOGICAL.
THE HORSE TURNS. THE BULL CHARGES. THE MAN MOVES ASIDE.
BODIES BRUSH AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, CHALLENGE ONE ANOTHER, ANSWER ONE ANOTHER.
THERE IS NO MASTER ANYMORE.
ONLY RHYTHM. INSTINCT. MOVEMENT.
WE HAVE ALWAYS DANCED WITH THE ANIMAL.
AND PERHAPS, IN THE END, THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE:
TO FIND YOUR MOVEMENT WITHIN THE MOVEMENT OF ANOTHER.
23 Sep 2026
HERE, WE READ THE LINES OF THE HAND.
WE READ THE SKY TOO.
THE WIND.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN A MAN AND AN ANIMAL.
WITH THOSE SAME HANDS,
WE GRIP THE HORNS OF THE BULLS.
AT HORSEBACK HEIGHT,
THE LASSO TURNS ABOVE OUR HEADS.
THERE IS DUST.
LEATHER.
BREATH.
HEAT.
THERE IS THAT VERY BRIEF MOMENT
WHEN EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON A GESTURE.
IN THE CAMARGUE,
YOU LEARN VERY QUICKLY
THAT THE BODY KNOWS THINGS
BEFORE WE DO.
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
19 Sep 2026
TU LA SENS LA CAMARGUE !!!
YOU CAN FEEL THE CAMARGUE, AS OUR MIMINE SAYS.
THERE IS THE LAND.
THE WIND.
THE ANIMALS.
AND THEN THERE IS THE MARK.
THE ONE BURNED INTO THE SKIN OF THE BULLS.
THE MARK OF THE MANADE.
OF THE OWNER.
A SIMPLE SIGN THAT SAYS: FROM HERE.
BUT IN THE CAMARGUE, MARKS DO NOT REMAIN ONLY ON THE ANIMALS.
YOU FIND THEM ON MEN, ON WOMEN, TATTOOED ON THE SKIN, STITCHED ONTO SHIRTS, DRAWN ON WALLS.
CROSSES, BRANDS, HORNS, SIGNS THAT EVERYONE HERE KNOWS HOW TO RECOGNISE.
THEY ARE NOT REALLY ORNAMENTS.
THEY ARE SIGNS OF BELONGING.
THE MARK SPEAKS OF FAMILY, OF LAND, OF LOYALTY.
IT BRINGS TOGETHER THOSE WHO STILL KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BELONG TO A PLACE.
WE THINK WE ARE MARKING THE ANIMALS.
AND THEN, WITH TIME, WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS THE CAMARGUE THAT MARKS US.
17 Sep 2026
THEY HAVE THE CAMARGUE IN THEIR EYES. THE WHITE LIGHT, THE WIND AND WHAT REMAINS AFTER THE FIRE. HERE, IN SPRING, FLOWERS RISE AGAIN FROM SCORCHED EARTH. SO DO THE WOMEN. QUIETLY, WITHOUT COMPLAINT, WITH THE SINGULAR BEAUTY OF THOSE WHO KNOW THAT EVERYTHING CAN DISAPPEAR AND THAT, DESPITE IT ALL, THEY MUST REMAIN STANDING.
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
11 Sep 2026
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, THE BULL HAS BEEN THE KING OF THE CAMARGUE. IT IS CELEBRATED, LOVED, RESPECTED, AND CHERISHED.
THE CAMARGUE RACE IS ONE OF THE FEW ARENA GAMES IN WHICH THE ANIMAL IS NOT KILLED. ATTACHED BETWEEN ITS HORNS ARE VARIOUS ATTRIBUTS THE ROSETTE, THE TASSELS, AND THE STRINGS WHICH YOUNG MEN DRESSED IN WHITE, KNOWN AS RASETEURS, ATTEMPT TO REMOVE. IN THIS VERTIGINOUS PROXIMITY TO DANGER, THEY REVEAL THEIR COURAGE, GRACE, AND NOBILITY. BUT THE TRUE PRINCE OF THE ARENA ALWAYS REMAINS THE BULL.
HERE, THE GREAT COCARDIERS BECOME LEGENDS. THEIR NAMES ARE PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS, THEIR SILHOUETTES ARE SCULPTED IN SQUARES AND AT ROUNDABOUTS, AND THEIR MEMORY BELONGS TO AN ENTIRE REGION.
WHEN THEY LEAVE THE ARENA, THEY RETURN TO THEIR MANADES, THE PLACES WHERE THEY WERE BORN. AND WHEN THEY DIE OF NATURAL CAUSES IN THEIR MARSHES, AN ENTIRE PEOPLE MOURNS THEM.
IN THE CAMARGUE, THE BULL IS NOT MERELY AN ANIMAL. IT IS A SOURCE OF PRIDE, A MEMORY, A LIVING HISTORY. A KING.
From my book La Camargue
@saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
07 Sep 2026
Francine Yonnet, affectionately known as “Quinquin,” an iconic figure of the Camargue and a renowned manadière (traditional Camargue bull breeder).
From my book La Camargue @saintlazareparisnyc
@editions_gallimard @voyagesgallimard
07 Aug 2026
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