Ambroise Tézenas and Frédéric Delangle
Social Integration Through Sports in the City / Paris Metropolitan Area, France
The Parisian banlieues, areas of social housing on the outskirts of the French capital, have long been a source of concern. Poverty, underachievement in schools, unemployment, social exclusion and drug-related crime are just some of the challenges facing young people in these areas. Clashes between different religious and ethnic groups are common, police brutality and disproportionate targeting of minorities are a reality. All these issues shape the daily lives of local residents and have a significant impact on the most vulnerable segment of the population: children and teenagers.
For the last 20 years, Sport dans la Ville has been France’s largest non-profit organisation serving young people from underserved neighbourhoods through sport and job readiness training in the Paris suburbs and throughout the country. These young people can take part in free sports sessions offered by Sport dans la Ville in their area, which are led and supervised by qualified coaches. The organisation’s programmes promote equal opportunities through social and professional integration, and have touched the lives of more than 15,000 young people across the nation.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Ambroise Tézenas
Born in Paris in 1972, Ambroise Tézenas graduated from the Vevey School of Applied Arts in Switzerland, in 1994. First based in London and then Paris, he worked as a photojournalist for both French and international magazines, spending much of his time travelling in South-East Asia and Central and South America.
Ambroise Tézenas devotes most of his time to landscape photography and, in 2001, began a five-year project to document the changes taking place in Beijing in the run-up to the Olympic Games. He achieved international recognition with his first book, Beijing, Theatre of the People, which is published in seven languages and the photos from which have been exhibited in numerous venues in Europe and Asia.
A photographer and author, his latest book, I Was Here, captures people’s growing interest in places associated with death and destruction.
Frédéric Delangle
Frédéric Delangle was born in 1965 in France and grew up in the Paris region.
He has been passionate about urbanism and landscapes since he started doing photography. In the 90s, he would regularly train his camera lens on the Paris ring road, looking out over the suburbs.
In 2001, he made his first trip to India, which marked a real turning point in his work. He plays with Indian codes, with the alleged difficulty for a Westerner to understand this culture, in order to better grasp it. He has also developed his own visual language, imposing constraints on himself, like OuLiPo.
Frédéric Delangle plays at scaring himself by venturing out alone in nature at night, as with his project Nyctalope. In his Paris-Delhi series, he plays with the idea of Indians colonising Paris. He builds bridges between the old continent and the new world by creating a Third Territory.
His only regret in photography is that he often has to work alone, without a playmate. This is certainly one of the reasons that led him to co-create the photographic project France(s) territoire liquide, bringing together 42 other photographers.
