I'm not nostalgic about my childhood, I only have a grey and lonely memory of it. I don't have anything to do with it anymore, it belongs to the past, eventhough I'm aware it is part of who I am now. These pictures are probably based in the first place on what Roland Barthes calls "the love suffering". However they are not an attempt of remembrance of things past, but a fictional and exhilarating construction. Close to cinema, it is a personal production, made of broken lines, moments of my life. I'm not looking for my childhood, I'm building another one, I'm not replacing it, I'm writing a new episode.

France, Vendôme The Rottes district is a small town inside the city, with its high school, its secondary school, a cultural center for Muslim people...an important associative link proves that with intelligence, men and women of this district can live together, and share rich and constructive human adventures. We are far away from those clichés about rude estates, we are in an example of life experiences.

Sexual pratice between consenting adult partners who often establish master-slave relationship. Men and women, leather-clad, sometimes tied up. The sadomasochism imposes domination games between adults always willing. The photographer deliberately shows what could appear as violent for the viewer. We are invited to voyeurism, accepting or not is a personal decision.

In this series, Olivier Coulange photographs a steamy vision of naked bodies. They are in fact TV screen captures...he takes over industrially produced porno pictures. Poses look suggestive, but it’s our imagination that is at stake to put down the limit between what is shown, and what is not shown. The viewer is led to give back its eroticism to the pictures, through imagination. The result is a game of shadow and light where lines draw bodies...or something else.

The indian population has far been the most cocerned population. Most of the women are indian peasants who underwent different pains, diseases and despair... and who are poorly thought by their families. Most of those women are indian peasants living in poor areas, "insignificant people" whom fate doesnt interest anyone in the rest of the country. Between 1995 and 2000, 331 600 women have been sterilized.

For 10 years, Olivier Coulange documented the daily life of Antonin and his family, and their relation with autism. Antonin turned 23 in 2009. Due to his condition, everyday tasks are rendered difficult to accomplish for him. Every task we unconsciously carry out is, for him, an obstacle distancing him from the world. From early childhood, most autistic people are either placed in hospitals or specialized institutions. More and more often, however, doctors try to leave the child with his or her family. In this environment, the feeling of isolation and emptiness imposed by autism are omnipresent. In this series, Olivier Coulange tells us: “The lives of autistic people or those of the...

In Orleans, as in a lot of places, men become women once the night comes. Wanting to be the other when we come on stage goes far back the time where women have no right to play comedy. Then, on the theatre plays scripts, we could read: “dressed as girl”...drag. Marginalised since this time, this practice, in accordance with the photograph, carries seduction and repulsion. The appearance becomes a real questioning on us and on our relationship with others.

From the fringe of Avignon festival to the Arts et Déchirures festival in Rouen, a theatre troupe forming by young autistics and psychotics people has been performing for twenty years. Originally, cultural workshops organized by Saint-Marie hospital, in Puy en Velay, by a psychiatric and a director driven by the same conviction: those enigma-children can express their creativity as everybody else. Story in the backstage of an experience which makes spotlights the best weapon against generally accepted idea.

This report was realised in the palliative cares unit of the Paul Brousse hospital. Treating or curing is not the aim of this unit, it takes care of people whose the illness can’t be stopped and of whose death is near. That’s this will to consider that the end of the life is an essential moment that medicine can’t neglect. Even if doctors and nurses had always do the palliative cares, the particular taking into account of escort to death in the hospital place is a recent idea, as the medical treatment of pain.

In the cold of towns more and more impersonal, people are still living and sleeping in the street. A cardboard as an only shelter, and sometime a bed in a foyer is free for the night. If any official number is told out loud about this situation, we can estimate that 700 000 people are homeless today in France. This report, even though it was realised in 1992, is still here to recall this reality.