Benjamin Hoffman

Benjamin Hoffman lived and photographed for several months in Cape Town, South Africa. The violence and intensity of the city's contrasts fascinated him; with Farewell Cape Town, he gives us his thoughts on the relationship of man to others and to his environment.

His gaze, both attentive and tense, is always imbued with tenderness and benevolence. Sophie Bouillon tells us about her love affair with the country while reminding us of her commitment as an independent journalist. In 2009, she was the youngest winner of the Albert London Prize for her report “Welcome to Mugabe! », published in the journal XXI.

At the edge of a road, at the edge of a hollow and winding path, the curve of the corpse of a fox, a pigeon, a deer, a hedgehog, a turtle, a cat ... Corpses crossed in the four corners of the world in the frantic quest for an ultimate image, in a human tribute to these stranded beasts.

What do we leave of our banal passage? What trace in the hour of the afterlife? Recumbent bodies. Soul somewhere ...

And to these images the refrain of a human who questions this dark area. The right words. The missing words. The heady music that returns with the clue to the end. What end, finally? How to prepare for it and think about it? How to get there?

A harmless route through a maze among dead animals, close friends with absent words that whisper a last song to us.

Testament Manouche is a dive into the world of adolescents and young adults from the Gypsy community.

They are the last remaining Jews in Ethiopia. More than 20 years after Operation Solomon enabled tens of thousands of this group’s members to return to the Promised Land, a handful are still waiting to migrate to Israel.

The exodus is particularly complex. As they have been converted to Christianity over the centuries, proving their Hebrew roots is a tedious process, one that rabbis and religious authorities have tackled for years. In January 2011, Israel revived its immigration efforts after years of obstacles and refusal.

A list of 8,000 candidates was then submitted to the Jewish Agency, the organisation that oversees weekly departures. These are the families that we followed from the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar to Jerusalem. The purpose of this site and the book is to tell in words and images the story of the Beta Israel’s (House of Israel) final exodus.