Animation du marché à Perpignan

A market in Perpignan organised by the Collectif d'art sociologique

Thanks to contacts made with Jacques Queralt, a journalist at the time with the regional daily L'Indépendant in Perpignan, our sociological campaign linking three districts of the town was a great success. This provincial newspaper, which was read by everyone in the town and even in the département, enabled us to disseminate our press releases on a daily basis, so to speak, to encourage all citizens to take part in an action that very quickly became theirs. Each of these three neighbourhoods represented a very specific population. The pieds noirs district, the émigrés and gypsies district and finally the native French district, the bourgeois and shopkeepers district...

The Franco-German Office for Youth (OFAJ), headed by Horst Wegmann, provided us with around fifteen trainees and a small sum of money, so for the first time we had the tools to undertake an ambitious project, as the attached photos and videos eloquently demonstrate, throughout the fortnight it lasted. The most successful action was the one where our trainees went around the town for a whole day asking local residents to take photos of them. The paper prints of these photos were made available to them over the following days on a very large table, where the people searched, elbow to elbow, for their personal photos and could, quite happily, take them away once they had discovered them...