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Three drops of blood like a flower

Three drops of blood like a flower

  • Authors: By (author) Clément CHAPILLON, By (author) Yannick JAFFRÉ
  • Publishers: AIR SPOUT
  • Date of Publication: 2025-01-10
  • Availability: Available
  • Pages: 128
  • Blood is not synthesized, or not yet. When someone receives a blood transfusion, it is necessarily thanks to others who have done the approach to give theirs, free of charge and anonymously. Each year, 119 millions of blood bags are thus collected worldwide, allowing to care for and save thousands of people, contrary to any narcissism or commercial consideration. Three drops of blood like a flower reflects this delicate ethic and discreet ordinary practices linking giving, care and gratitude, by a story told in two voices – those of a photographer and an anthropologist – mixing the realism of the gaze to a poetic apprehension of the world, to recognize the importance of these “tiny lives” without whom no one would be treated or saved.
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