June 18, 1985 I have my bac
my parents ask me what I want
as a reward reward rare where
the famous site there I like
photo is the beginning my relationship with the
photographer I bet eight years I
my name is jean ice and I am
photojournalist I will tell you
today a little bit of my story
but especially how a job but
won the parts that I could
meet
that changed nani and that helped me to
evolve in this world but rare
tomorrow’s one I think is threatening
I’m a photojournalist and it was not
not expected I come from a very middle
simple you modest tone in a small
village of brittany
not very far from here have done in the
ribs of armor
my grandparents and the farmer my
father is also working in
agriculture
my mother works and we deserve house of
I’ll see you again
still in Madame Trévidic’s office
at 14 years old guidance counselor
college away no or who asks me what
that I want to do later friendship
what do I want to do with my life
I hesitate too much I do not explain myself I
want to become a photo reporter here is
what I’m going to I still see the head
tomorrow afternoon we explain that I
do not really wear to tell me he
Not many opportunities out
his life and montredon frantically
other classes a and then that’s
usually make another choice
at very cheap I still look
and I tell myself that maybe to meditate
in international relations
could make a good group
after 3 what interested me was
to discover nature and to meet
people
I do so langres is one and
I maintain as first boss a
cultural attaché work at the embassy
de france in the dominican republic
I still see him look at my parents
the bright eyes of my father when
I’m announcing the job darling girl
with a diplomatic passport to
represent French culture to
overseas
wow it was a long time that’s right
that on paper it’s more like dreaming
do not feel the beach but my job I
earn well my life I have the same no
every weekend in new york
this class except that the problem is
that he is already happy despite everything
framework despite all these benefits
despite the diplomatic passport I
was not happy
I was not fulfilled in my work
that’s why when I’m 30
propose to renew my contract was born
a day the charcoal and then especially
I always had a fart the little idea
to become a photo reporter
and remember I told you that I was
bretonnes and bretons him they are
stubborn I am very stubborn so before but
too long frozen decides to go back
at dad’s mom the little one
the age of plovers in brittany back to
The starting point
return to canada in place during the winter
you do not hide that care hives on
the ambassador in the tropics was
good but it does not matter but I
still saw the head of my
parents a little disappointed rather disappointed and
worried the world is coming to them
this epilogue I would gresset for me
on the contrary
I was going to be 30 years old especially
I did not want to have regrets
if it works so much better if it does not work
no it does not matter but at least
I would have tried I would have tried
experience
I’m done and I discover that
paris of a formation it takes two
journalists so I decide to ride
in the capital and to go to paris for
pass the contest
after eight months that’s it I ‘ve got them
I become a photojournalist except that
does not it’s so simple
while I saw him already go through the
world and to cover the last crisis
humanitarian in africa
in fact I find myself in Paris by train
to cover the global automotive
for an American customer or still do
weddings to round off their ends of
month
it was the galley galley the good
galley and the galley that lasts a little
word for three years
I’m waiting desperately and orders
magazines that do not come
I’m trying desperately to sell
reports that do not sell and then
one day I did not have the apartment I
I had to take those big ones
owners
my boyfriend you are the package go
we were too much nothing held me back I
decides to remake my suitcases and
leave again abroad but this
times as a photographer
youth is to go to america
Latin because I’ve always been
attracted by this continent and especially I
knew there were things to do
I had always been interested in a
work find the place of the woman
and I wanted to understand how that
ci and especially the new generation
could evolve in a society that
was deemed as a great match and I
will go to colombia in bogota
because I had a friend raphael reality
there and I told myself the worst but the
web room in his apartment me
so that happened to bogota and a
report had heard of a
tradition called Daikin last
so I do not know if among you in the
room you’ve already heard of
this celebration that is not interested
as his name says it will tell us what
that he was doing the birthday party of
fifteen years in latin america is a
sect is very popular in his part me
had said matinee that including the
very popular is always very
popular in Columbia that I wanted
understand it was the operation of
these holidays greece will adhere is a
young girl a thousand he big dress
flashy with a wreath the feast of the
China cnra and a whole ritual this holiday
symbolizes the transition from adolescence to
the adult woman in latino youth
americano there are sentences that is
organized I told you about Rome
there is also the photographer of the evening
there is also your body there is also the
decoration
it’s a phenomenal budget is what
you realize that some
families especially among the most
the most disadvantaged
spend up to 6 million pesos
ie for a party
birthday
these families there because have been up
three years to borrow only
an evening which is interesting
in the feast of loopholes it’s a miracle
to explain it’s a real rite of
transition from childhood to adolescence it
y at a key moment during the evening
the acquis cnra is what is called the
change of shoes this moment I
that’s when the father changes the
particular girl’s shoe
complaining about his flat heels ride in
Thailand
I really like this symbol
the girl through this evening
becomes a real farm to doubt the
process is engaged I understand
so why these girls and these
families prefer to spend as much
money rather than saving for
buy car and barnier in the
future studies or take a trip
because this holiday
this rite of passage this initiatory rite
is fundamental for these families there and
without solid without this holiday becomes 10
admiral the young women would be
always considers always remains
little girls
it’s true that initiatory rites
the rites of initiation are fundamental
they are structuring they help us to
structure me in our journey
staff
how can we evolve in our
world today and even more tomorrow
if we do not know who we are
as the philosopher and writer says
yves stone at the breach
self-knowledge can not be obtained
that by initiation the rites of
passage the initiatory rites exists
for centuries and this in
many companies
i’m talking about latin america but also
in Africa today in our
Western society
we have forsaken their win the symbol
of these initiatory rites and it’s serious
today we live in a society
of uninitiated in a society a little
too many kids with pseudo oh my
desire is really saying damage
so I met these girls this
which turned out I did my report
after several weeks I draw from
from bogota to go in the
law laugh which is a semi region
desert north of columbia at the
border with venezuela and especially
in the loire inra lives a society
who’s called the wise the thugs are
one of the last matriarchal societies
or is it a society
matriarchal a patriarchal society is
a society where women occupy a place
power plant
chili wenzhou the company to organize a
flying is all people are
interconnected with a strong link
maternal children for example
take the name of their mother I surrender
so not without difficulty in the means because
that good thugs actually I feel a
little like me are received and they are there
there are codes to respect
already I do not know if you see where is
located the gr joël hallais once on
I had to accept
and when I met marie viala
village shaman who explained that
to come had to make
conditions I told myself there no
worry I make up ears except that there
could have gone I ‘ll take with
gifts the mechanics it was a
goat and 100 kg of plantains
here is the little Breton had left
his village and that he arrives in this
sum that can lose a very very
lost in colombia with his dear and that’s
really plantain summer long
I accepted I could integrate and passed
several days in this community
I come to the clan in challenge and
hiring ana
I was lucky and at that time there
also had a rite of passage to my
initiative in jerseys from the
day when the girl at her first
rules begins what’s called initiate
the minerals tell me the confinement at
noyon
when the hymn siro starts the young
girl is isolated from the rest of the
community and locking me up a box and
we’re helping him in a hammock case is this
that you can achieve the rite of
passage can last three months
but still not so long ago
could still last three years three years
during which the mother and the
grandmother take charge of the
young girl is well becoming
a woman by instilling values
fundamental ones such as respect
love the job explains to him
also how to do weaving
since one of the first resources
of the community when you and the craft
through the weaving art these young
women can become autonomous and
independent
at the end of this ceremony at the front
musicians rock the intestines end it
there’s a whole ritual and the girl at the
pounding and purifying have the balls the
hair and we wash it and at the moment of its
outing a big party is organized and
you sign in their machetes wayuu
home beautiful chinese lesson yu them
rules are honored in your society
Western rules are apt
I do not know he knows in the audience
in young women who are
present
how much did you talk about their
rules with their mother their grandmother
Me personally
nobody said anything to me I think that
shame
in our western society
everything related to the adult woman
states is hidden we try to
hide
I’m talking about rules I’m also thinking about
women with cellulite
I am also thinking of female forms
forms between who is developing and that’s
dramatic because we need
of these benchmarks to advance in our
transformation go to adulthood
it’s been three months since I
am in colombia it’s time for me
to go back I have my vote I go back in
France transformed I am no longer there
but I feel that it is not yet
finished I feel that I need to do
something I feel I need
Ariane is funny I need to talk
to my father I go back to Brittany
for bars at home we are not
in the family kind we really say
his feelings we say haughty page I
remember it was like it was
yesterday
I resume again found my father
in the garden this summer evening 2015 with
my leaf of a trembling for him
to speak I was 34 years old so long as
that and I had my wife i dreamed ghana
to forget nothing
because I had important things
to tell him I wanted to tell him that 34
years since I was little son
wanted to tell him 84 years old I had become
a woman an adult woman years old I
always stay Safir that I assumed to
no one I had become I wanted
explain to me that I was fully
Conscious that he was disappointed I am
more in diplomacy
but my diplomatic passport and
I became a photographer and I
but that’s how I was
happy
my father was rather understanding and at
the listened was good but even if he
had not been
it does not matter what is important
it’s that I did this act of
magic but in front of my family in front
from my father and I too have acronyms and
so photographer was a job is this
which is quite funny is that some
weeks after talking to him after
having done this act when I proposed
in late May subject to action I
won several competitions at the level
international and I have many
publications
it was the beginning of my career
career took off
if I had not left if I did not
not spoken to my father I am persuaded
none of that would have happened
meetings that I could do with these
women with kim ki-nam graff or with
the thugs have changed my life itself
toif on the om being beautiful and if the
final it was not that too tomorrow if
requests were not being heard
values of these traditional societies
it is besides us as
Western society we gave up
and yet that are fundamental
[Applause]
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