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In Mulhouse, the profits of a book on confinement partly donated to the hospital

Posted the 03/18/2021 19:54

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“March 28, 2020, Mulhouse, suspended time” is the title of a book of photos and testimonies on the first confinement. On each copy sold, two euros are donated to the hospital of Mulhouse severely tested last spring.

It all started with a desire. On March 28, 2020, France has been confined for 11 days. Mulhouse is then at the epicenter of the Covid epidemic. Dominique Giannelli, Alsatian photographer, Meilleur Ouvrier de France in 2015, leaves his home to take pictures of his city, without a clear idea. But far from the architectural photos which are his specialty, the artist will capture a moment of history.

A few weeks later, he selects twenty of his photos and posts them on his Facebook page. The success is immediate. Shortly after, Laurent Gentilhomme, journalist at Alsace written an article and soon, the idea of ​​a book germinates in the minds of the two men. An idea made possible by a third thief, the publisher Patrick Girard.

At the end of November 2020, the project becomes reality. Dominique Giannelli’s photos are accompanied by texts by Laurent Gentilhomme and testimonies from Mulhousiens. Caregivers, teachers, artists … anonymous people who tell about “their” confinement. The book, a precious testimony to an unprecedented and historical period, was torn off during the Christmas holidays. Reissued, it is one of the best sellers in bookstores in the region and on the publisher website. And that’s good because for each copy sold, two euros are donated to Mulhouse hospital, still on the front line in the face of the Covid epidemic.

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