Ruins, History, and the Gaze: When Photography Uncovers Our Past

Two women tackle the question of identity and history of peoples at the gallery of Château d’Eau in Toulouse: Marion Gronier focuses on the founding peoples of the United States, while Gosette Lubondo takes a journey through the history of her country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

How do you tell the story of a country or a people? How, using images, do you highlight the faces of those who have been forgotten or recover a missing chapter of the shared past? The Château d’Eau Gallery in Toulouse, the oldest French public instit...

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