Peasant women

The photographer, Alexis Vettoretti, author of the award-winning series Paysannes, is set out since 2013 to meet French women, girls and women of peasants born in the interwar period, witnesses of a bygone era and in which, however, they still live. The novelist Marie-Hélène Lafon signs the text I recognize them, placed in a notebook outside the text. Peasant women. Their faces bear the traces of a century that has seen our society moving from tradition to modernity. Working the land. Raising children. Taking care of the home. A silent existence, inherited from an era whose last vestiges are slowly fading away. Unthinkable, unacceptable for the children of the 21st century. Peasant Women, a series of moving portraits taken with a large format camera, reveals these French women, peasant girls and wives born in the interwar period, witnesses of an era that is now over and in which, yet they still live. The photographic series is accompanied by the text by Marie-Hélène Lafon, I recognize.