New Young Europeans

The police questioned me for many hours and asked me if I was seeking asylum , but I did not know what asylum was. I just knew I had to leave my country.

Alpa Bah 17 from Sierra Leone.

Emigrance

“Feelings of people who have emigrated”

We wanted to understand the journeys of the migrants we went back with 12 persons in their country.

Etranges chroniques

For one year I met every month six young migrants with the writer Bertrand Verfaillie. Each time we took a photo of the new place for them and recorded the new words they learned.

Etre(s) d’ici

“I felt I had to live, think, eat and cook like in France”. Nelum from Sri lanka

Portraits of people who arrived in Valenciennes. Regional Capital of culture.