#CHAM, Memories of colonial slavery: a photographic investigation
I started the Cham (1) project with the urgency of answering this question: How was made possible the deportation of twelve million men and women from African continent to the Americas and Europe. How was organized the social, political and moral consensus around the slave trade for four centuries, and then, how it was possible to erase this tragedy of the collective memory of the West countries (and not only), even in textbooks? Have the memories of slavery, discarded by the rails of official history, survived to this day and, if so, in what forms, in what practices and places? How these memories, repressed by some, preserved by others, define our everyday relationships, our perception of others and the place of everyone in society?
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