Sisters of Providence
Langres, 2022
Langres, 2022
In the autumn of 2022, I was commissioned by La Tribu du Vivant magazine to take photos to illustrate an article about the Sœurs de la Providence in Langres.
Sisters who happen to be my direct neighbors, but whom I'd never met until then. I spent half a day with them, documenting their daily activities, still focused on helping others, despite their age.
From this reportage, I produced a series of twelve images below, which enabled me to win the Rise Cup, the competition organized every year among the students of Rise Up (a wedding photography course held every year in Chamonix).
A story about an ending that isn't an ending.
The Sisters of Providence in Langres have long been a large Catholic sisterhood, with hundreds of sisters dedicating their lives to others. Still active and at the service of the community, today there are only six of them, and in the absence of a new vocation, they know their time is running out. They have decided to donate their home to an association, so that their values will live on there after them. In their home, "Le goût des autres" is renovating to provide a reintegration restaurant, accommodation for people in difficulty, an associative café and a place for a popular university, so that their action will endure long after her.
One day, they'll all be buried next to their sisters, in the cemetery adjacent to their former home at Ferme Sainte-Anne, which is now a wedding venue. And, among other things, my next wedding.
