DOCKERS DE POINTE-NOIRE (Republic of the Congo, 2004)
The most important port city in the Republic of the Congo is Pointe-Noire, where the harbour workers have to perform their tasks under difficult conditions and for very little pay. Loading and unloading the ships takes place with considerably less safety precautions and fewer streamlined processes than in Western ports. David Damoison recorded the men of Pointe-Noire in probing black and white portraits. Their gaze, the dust and dirt betray the severity of their lives, but also their pride.