Title: Für den Tschad
Photographer(s): Marie-Laure De Decker
Writer(s): Ornella Tondini
Designer(s): Thomas Hornemann
Publisher(s): Verlag Köln 78, Köln , Germany
Year: 1979
Print run:
Language(s): German
Pages: 76
Size: 21 x 27 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition: French edition, Pour le Tchad, Le Sycomore, Paris,French, 1978
Print: Movimento Druck, Berlin, Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Chad, 1976 -1977
ISBN:
She had a deep love for Africa, having been born in the then French colony of Algeria. Arriving in Chad in 1975, she met the Toubou rebels fighting against the Chadian and French armies. She lived with them for two years in the heart of the Sahara, taking black and white portraits of the fighters posing proudly. “Colour is never as beautiful as in real life, so it’s in black and white that people’s souls show,” she said. De Decker walked and suffered with the Toubou and they respected her, embraced her and renamed her “Marie de l’or”: Mary of Gold.
Ornella Tondini was asked by Marie-Laure to undertake the trip to Chad with her, they stayed there for 6 months, taking wonderful photos and encountering everyday life.