AOBA/ The blue sheet From 2010-01-14 to 2010-02-24 Carré Amelot - Espace Culturel de la Ville de La Rochelle - La Rochelle (FRANCE)
A Tatami ephemera on park lawns in springtime, a parasol for cereals trying to keep cool, a screen in autumn, a cosy winter coat for bare trees. Nailed down, roped up, moored, floating or stuck down, wherever you go, both in the city and in the countryside, its lovely azure colour is dotted all over the landscape of the Japanese archipelago. The Japanese call it Ao Ba, “the blue sheet“. This is a very pretty name for a simple tarpaulin, a mass-produced square piece...
Each week, on Friday at 1pm, mediapart.fr and Agence VU offer the work of a photoreporter.
A portfolio of 12 to 20 pictures is available for online sale. (website in french)
St Petersburg is located at 59 degrees 57' North (roughly on the same latitude as Oslo, Norway, the southern...