Longwy, Lorraine
1978-...
Since the beginning of the 70s, the steel industry in Longwy in Eastern France seems to be condemned. Thousands of jobs are in the balance. The population fights with the workers, fights for the survival of its region, goes up to Paris...
My colleague François Fabrizi of the Grapus design collective grew up in the smokes of the steel plant of Herserange near Longwy, like myself in those of Saarbrücken in Germany.
We felt concerned and moved to Longwy in 1978 to do something useful as graphic designers. But we understood quickly that it was really necessary to register and to transmit the atmosphere of a turning point in history. So we used the camera…
See also the file "Retour en Lorraine", a collective project of the bar Floreal-photography
(2008 ).
Since the beginning of the 70s, the steel industry in Longwy in Eastern France seems to be condemned. Thousands of jobs are in the balance. The population fights with the workers, fights for the survival of its region, goes up to Paris...
My colleague François Fabrizi of the Grapus design collective grew up in the smokes of the steel plant of Herserange near Longwy, like myself in those of Saarbrücken in Germany.
We felt concerned and moved to Longwy in 1978 to do something useful as graphic designers. But we understood quickly that it was really necessary to register and to transmit the atmosphere of a turning point in history. So we used the camera…
See also the file "Retour en Lorraine", a collective project of the bar Floreal-photography
(2008 ). 
