It is a disturbing panorama. Plastic pollution, overfishing, mining, industrial or tourism, melting ice… From Indonesia to Alaska, from Gabon to Polynesia, the 7 journalists and photographers of the Argos collective have documented for several years grabbing of the seas and the devastation caused by man.
Give to understand
The AMER exhibition, made up of 31 panelswas funded by the French Office for Biodiversity. “It seemed important to us to be able to show the pressures that weigh on the oceanspecifies Cyrille Barnerias, director of international relations at the OFB. By illustrating them with very beautiful photos to alert and sensitize the public”.
The form is that of a journalistic report with abundant content. “The particularity of the collective is not only to show but to give to understand, and that also goes through the text”explains Sébastien Daycard, editor and member of the Argos collective.
Alert but also find solutions
Necessary work for the navigator François Gabart, who sponsors the exhibition: “We have quite little information I find on these subjects which are nevertheless extremely important. And it is true that this exhibition alerts on these problems to try to better understand, to find solutions”.
Because the project goes beyond the observation, by also evoking the solutions and initiatives implemented to better preserve this common good. “We are not only in the negative”concludes Sébastien Daycard.
– Nicholas Olivier
Practical information AMER exhibition, until March 8 on the Moulin Blanc promenade in Brest. 4 introductory panels are also visible at the SNCF station. Free.