Overview participating exhibitions
Ordinary Pain
2009
Ordinary Pain
David Damoison
DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
The most important port city in the Republic of the Congo is Pointe-Noire, where the harbour workers have to perform their tasks under difficult conditions and for very little pay. Loading and unloading the ships takes place with considerably less safety precautions and fewer streamlined processes than in Western ports. David Damoison recorded the men of Pointe-Noire in probing black and white portraits. Their gaze, the dust and dirt betray the severity of their lives, but also their pride.
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DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
The most important port city in the Republic of the Congo is Pointe-Noire, where the harbour workers have to perform their tasks under difficult conditions and for very little pay. Loading and unloading the ships takes place with considerably less safety precautions and fewer streamlined processes than in Western ports. David Damoison recorded the men of Pointe-Noire in probing black and white portraits. Their gaze, the dust and dirt betray the severity of their lives, but also their pride.
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DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
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DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
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DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
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DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
Biography
Dockers de Pointe-Noire (2004)
The most important port city in the Congo is Pointe-Noire, where the harbour workers have to perform their tasks under difficult conditions and for very little pay. Loading and unloading the ships takes place with considerably less safety precautions and fewer streamlined processes than in Western ports. David Damoison recorded the men of Pointe-Noire in probing black and white portraits. Their gaze, the dust and dirt betray the severity of their lives, but also their pride.
In 1991 David Damoison (France, 1963) conducted a photographic investigation on the West Indian community in Paris. That led to a collaboration with Revue Noir. Since then the Martiniquean has been chiefly occupied with the African Diaspora, ‘the tidal streams of people who irrigate Africa and the Caribbean.’
