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"In Burkina Faso and Mali, where she often travelled, Françoise Huguier took the time to meet the people : she spoke to them, she entered the houses, the women's rooms, she listened.

Thus she earned the right to photograph their lives, and brings back a series of portraits captured in intimacy, simplicity and shared respect. It is the looks that captivate you : close, intense looks, looks of women gathered on the threshold, in the refuge of a room, in the abandonment of a corner of the bed.

The book then evokes the slow path of confidences, of which Françoise Huguier herself recounts the conditions and experience in a text punctuating with words the secret that each of her photographs betrays with complicity. " Claire Denis