Aka Zidane, 2019
A host of anonymous people wearing on their backs the names of the world’s greatest football stars. Confronted with poverty, violence, exile but also at the most pleasant moments of everyday life, the contrast is striking.
Who are the Ronaldo, Messi, Zidane that the photographer Michaël Zumstein has been has been bump into each other in Africa for 10 years?
By juxtaposing these world-famous football doubles with the ordinary or tragic situations of several countries on the continent, the photographic series AKA ZIDANE tells how other matches are played there.
Ronaldinho, the Brazilian striker, is at the Bangui hospital where his friend has just died in his arms. In Libya Olivier Giroud, the Arsenal striker, is imprisoned before he can embark for Europe.
Under these aliases and by diverting the codes of journalistic narrative, AKA ZIDANE gives the place and scope of the lives of men and women.
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