TITLE: Jasmin des bas-fonds

"Jasmin des bas-fonds" is a visual allegory about childhood trapped in geopolitical conflicts. Through this metaphorical staging, Northside France Pictures denounces contemporary imperialism and its violence, as well as the fate of children deprived of protection, growing up in an environment of hatred and despair, generated by the oppressor himself under the pretext of a so-called democracy or communitarian ideology (religion, ethnicity, etc.), planning ethnic cleansing, land dispossession, and displacement of people, particularly in Palestine.

The children, covered with a keffiyeh, vulnerable, one clutching a torn teddy bear and the other beside a saxophone, embody stifled innocence. Flags transform into symbols of domination, masks of power: the United States and Israel appear as figures of the modern colonizer, and the UN, impassive, bureaucratic, in a suit and tie with a suitcase full of money, illustrates the hypocrisy of international inaction in the face of injustice.
This series is a form of poetic resistance: a reminder that behind every display of force lie bodies, souls, lives, and stolen childhoods. The artist’s work reflects his feelings, his way of seeing the world, and above all his will to denounce the injustices he perceives, as much towards himself as towards others.

This photo is a form of poetic resistance: a reminder that behind every display of force lie bodies, souls, lives, and stolen childhoods. The artist’s work reflects his feelings, his way of seeing the world, and above all his will to denounce the injustices he perceives, as much towards himself as towards others.

AUTHOR: Northside France Productions/Pictures (France)

Northside France Pictures/Productions is more than a duo of photographers and directors, it’s a vision born off the beaten path. One comes from architecture, later embracing cinema. The other studied business. Both put on factory overalls, working night shifts to finance their first cameras. From sweat and steel, they forged their creative freedom.
Their gaze is nourished by multiple cultures and sharpened by cinematic references. Northside France is not about names or egos, it is about the project, the image, the perspective.
This is the French touch: the world seen from another angle.