Books & Prints
NIGLO - Les Gens du Voyage
Extract from the interview with Henri - Founding President of HDC NIGLO
"We travellers, we are above all businessmen, from the seller of fuss to the owner of a roller coaster in a luna park, we make no segregation, no distinction. We are all fairground, and proud of the be.
We are also a people, a race with our ancestral codes. To be frank, the majority of Niglos have been immersed in the fairground spirit for generations. Some are sedentary because they have decided, but the vast majority are true nomads, with the nomadic spirit, the nomadic culture. We move to the rhythm of opportunity. One day in the North, the next month in the South. Not where the wind takes us but where business calls us." ----///----
"From the creation of the Niglo club, we divided up the roles. Above all, I did not want to be president, even less treasurer because I was too generous, and no longer secretary because I could not read. So I took the Public Relations role. ---///----
“Our premises very quickly turned into a traveling semi-trailer 13 meters long and 6 meters wide bought from EDF .
BIKERS MC Volume 3 - Ultimate
Four years and Covid have passed since the release of volume 2 of Bikers MC.
The story seemed to be over. There was no question of embarking on a third installment with the feeling of cashing in.
And yet, here we are in February 2024, after numerous reminders along the lines of "Your story isn't over, there are still plenty of MCs to meet," and my response, "This scene is so volatile and unstable that when I release Volume 10, many MCs will have disappeared, and others will have emerged... there will still be dozens of MCs to meet."
So, I decided to produce a third installment, and to make sure that it was the last of the Saga, I decided to call it "Ultimate".
I embarked on this socio-ethno-photographic adventure in 2017, eight years ago. I had no idea what kind of world I was about to encounter. I knew a handful of bikers who met every Tuesday at a restaurant called "Le Bistrot" near Place de la République in Paris, owned by Tony, a future Hells Angel in Paris. From the start, the biker world seemed confusing, obscure, and chaotic, with alliances between clubs, but also turf wars fueled by international clubs trying to gain control over entire countries.
To better understand what might motivate a biker to join a club, and especially an MC, I immersed myself in the world of bikers by reading essential novels, stories, but also documentaries and testimonies relating to this milieu such as: Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson or "No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels" by Jay Dobyns,
which is also a testimony from an agent who infiltrated the Hell's Angels. But above all, "Biker Gangs and Organized Crime" by Thomas Barker
which studies the links between biker gangs and crime.
And finally, what really convinced me to undertake this photographic work was watching the first episodes of Sons of Anarchy.
I saw no connection between fantasy and reality. (continued)