Singer, writer and composer Alain Bashung died at 61, a few days after a big ovation of his peers gathered at the Victoires de la Musique, the French Awards for the music industry. Richard Dumas is one of the rare photographers to give a series of intimate portraits of the musician.

In Paris, the town of the cinema, Richard Dumas, just like a writer, lets his gaze and his soul roam. Approriating the spirit of La chambre verte, he dialogues with spirit of La chambre verte, he dialogues with his dear departed, like for sure, the couple Straub and Huillet, crossed by chance, as a sign of fate, in the cemetery. A halt in the cemetery over the tomb of François Truffaut which is visited by cats. Jean-Pierre Léaud and a few others play The Four Hundred Blows on Henri Langlois’ tomb. Juliette has found Man Ray. Oscar’s tom his smeared with lipstick. How can you photograph absence ? It all started in the sue de Seine due to the mineral sensuality of a wasp-waisted sculpture....

12-12-1999, the ship Erika, sailing under the Maltese flag, chartered by Total with 30 900 tonnes of fuel, broke in two parts 70 km south of Penmarc’h (Finistère) : 10 000 to 12 000 tonnes of fuel were spilled into the sea. 11 235 tonnes of fuel were retrieved at the end of the pumping, 20 000 were lost. 400 kms of coast, from Finistère to Vendée, were polluted, causing the death of 80 000 to 150 000 birds.

Editions Filigranes - Text : Philippe Garnier. A RealDoll only bends when you ask her. She does not splay flat, under the worst exertion. She is heavy, solid, neither hollow or inflatable, but reinforced with steel rods, the flesh made of three kinds of silicon of variable softness. She is washable, and you can take her up every hole. She costs between 5 749 and 6000 dollars. Plus 450 for expedition (800 for international). Pubic hair is p lanted by hand on the Doll, one hair at a time, and you can order her bush either "cropped", shaved or "natural"...