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Project · Madagascar · Photobook
L'île rouge en correspondances
A photobook that made it possible to build a school in Ambodimanga, a fishing village in Madagascar.
A book for a school
L'île rouge en correspondances is a photographic novel about Madagascar: it is meant to be read as well as looked at. Eight photographers spent several years building visual correspondences, away from the usual tourist and news pictures.
The book paid for the school in Ambodimanga, a fishing village on the Pangalanes canal. It was built and opened in October 2024. About 80 children now attend it. Sales still fund the school.
“These people have nothing, yet they have everything. We have everything, and so little…”
180
pages of photographic stories
150+
photographs
8
photographers
80
children now in school at Ambodimanga
Caroline, Christine, Elisabeth, Franck, Guy, Patrick, Pierre, Stéphane.
Ambodimanga
Eighty children aged 6 to 15 had never been to school. One classroom, two groups (morning and afternoon), one teacher — or two part-time. A villager gave the land. His son, an architect, drew the plans, costed the work, bought the materials and followed the building. The village put up the fence and created an association of the same name, so that it would own the school.
The school was finished and opened in October 2024. The children attend it now: about 80 are enrolled.
Humanitarian photo journeys
Markets, craft, fishing villages reached by pirogue.
Madagascar — photographs by Guy Chapellier
Guy Chapellier
★ Floats · 2026 · Refocus Awards
Floats
More photographs will be added.
Ensemble pour les Enfants de Madagascar
August 2016, on the RN7 at Antsoatany: a meeting with the mayor, Véro Rasoa.
- 2017 — supplies for 1,600 children in Antsoatany
- 2018 — a 50 m² classroom destroyed by a cyclone is rebuilt
- 2019 — tables and benches for 600 children, canteen equipment, 4 sewing machines
- 2022–2023 — orphanages, a mother-and-child centre, clinics, the Lovasoa school
- November–December 2023 — the book is written
- February 2024 — crowdfunding campaign
- October 2024 — the school opens and the children attend
- 2026 — a campaign to build a boat on the Pangalanes canal
Press and exhibitions
- Confrontations photo, Gex, October 2018: a 1.50 m globe, 300 photographs, 10 tonnes of sand, 48 m². Article by Jérôme Legay. Again in March 2024.
- Galerie Rastoll, Paris, November 2018. François Rastoll: “A deeply human and humanist project.”
- J'adore la photo — Antonio Gaudencio on the book
- Empreintes de l'île Rouge, Arles Off, Hôtel Jules César, 1 July–3 November 2024.
- Uzès (Les Azimutés), Salon de la photo, Bièvres.