Claudine Doury — Amour, une odyssée sibérienne
Exhibition from 20 January to 9 April 2023
ImageSingulières – Centre Photographique Documentaire
17 rue Lacan, 34 200 Sète
Claudine Doury first went in Far Eastern Siberia in 1991 and again in 1997 to witness the lives of native peoples. Traveling along the banks of the Amur River, she passed through the villages of Nergen, Bulava, Ush Gur, and Bogorodskoye.
Twenty years later, she returned to the region to find the Nanaimo, Ultche, and Nivkh families she had met on her previous trips. In this way, she wanted to testify to the passage of time on these families photographed at that time, but also to the mutations that had taken place on a larger scale on these populations.
“In documenting the lives of these families, I affirm the need to recognize today these vulnerable but living cultures, while raising the question of the fate of these peoples. “ Claudine Doury
This portrait of Asian families native of Amur is an opportunity to redefine the contours of a territory that bears the traces of its history: the conquest of the East, the arrival of the Cossacks and the Russian settlement over the centuries, up to the current influence of the powerful border China on the geopolitics of the region.
A trip filled with surprising encounters, endearing figures and marked by what Claudine Doury feels when Love flows into the sea: “The end of Love is of infinite sadness. Its silty waters mingle with those of the Sea of Okhotsk, opposite the island of Sakhalin, the prison of the tsars. The sky seems bigger there than elsewhere, stretching its whiteness to the Pacific.”
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