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Nomad portraits by Marc Pichelin and Troubs gives to hear and see the forgotten voices. Moreover, This illustrated book. However, born of a four -year immersion in an emergency accommodation center, mixes sketch of reality and raw words, in a gesture of recognition for the overturned lives. – Lunch forgotten voices
In 2018, Marc Pichelin and Troubs discover chalets by chance, an emergency accommodation center in Périgueux. Moreover, Touched by residents’ accounts, they regularly return to it for Exchange, listen, draw. In addition, When the center moved in 2020, they continue their immersion in the new structure managed by the association La Halte 24.
For four years. Consequently, until December 2024, they shared the daily life of the place, rub shoulders with medico-social teams, collect life stories and bite faces. In addition, Nomad portraits is born from this experience: a field book, both listening book and artistic gesture.
Two authors committed lunch forgotten voices to human levels
Marc Pichelin, born in 1967, is a musician, sound creator, screenwriter and publisher. For example, He lives. Meanwhile, works in Périgueux, where he has been developing for over thirty years a work turned towards the poetry of reality. Similarly, Founder of the company Ouïe/Dire. Consequently, co -founder of hammer sharks, it mixes sound, comics and documentary in a demanding approach.
Troubs (Jean-Marc Troubet), born in 1969, is a traveler’s comic book author, trained in Fine Arts. Consequently, Installed in Dordogne, he leaves with his notebooks crunch the world: from the Roya Valley to the centers for Sans-Abris. Its line, imbued with sweetness, seeks to capture the moment more than to embellish it. Both place the human at the heart of their work, with modesty, commitment and tenderness.
Drawings crunched on the spot and words that slam
Troubs Draw as we breathe: Quick, sincerely, without style effect. Its black and white line, lively and minimalist, captures the posture, the gaze, the silence between the words. On each page, a face, a decor, a scene of life. He does not seek beauty, but the naked truth. For his part, Marc Pichelin Note, records, restores. Her Writing, raw and dryoscillates between field book and logbook. He transcribes the sentences as they fall, sometimes with bursts of violence, often scraps of lunch forgotten voices humor. A lively word, without ornament, which gives way to those who rarely take it.
A strong material but a thread that is lost
If the bottom is humanthe form wishes. The book, built as a logbook between October 2020 and December 2024, advances without real progression. The pages are linked like so many fragments: a face, a memory, an exchange, an anecdote. We discover dedicated social workers, residents who try to survive, broken stories. But the absence of narrative structure or evolution makes reading sometimes monotonous. In the absence of a guideline, the reader struggles to anchor himself, to follow a thread, to feel a dynamic.
An essential subject, at the heart of our society
Despite its formal limits, Nomad portraits addresses a topical hot topic : Invisible precariousness, that of homeless, migrants, chronic patients, cable young people. In France, near 200,000 people are hosted every night in more than 3,000 emergency centersdont 90 % Places are occupied. A third of accommodation are minors, 81 % are foreigners, and 28 % Hosted adults work despite everything. The average duration of emergency accommodation is 18 monthsfar from the alleged urgency. Behind these figures, there is faces. The book gives them their humanity, their voice, their right to be looked at otherwise.
An imperfect but necessary book
Nomad portraits is not a classic story, nor a linear comic strip. It is a work lunch forgotten voices apartsensitive, raw, which reads like a silent testimony. We would have liked more structure, more narrative breath. But we must salute the intention, the presence, the commitment of those who took the time to listen. And this simple sentence from the Director of Halte 24 Resonates like a manifesto :
“There is no expectation. You are there, in the moment, with the person who agrees to indulge otherwise. »»
Marc Pichelin and Troubs – Nomad portraitseditions hearing/saying, 264 pages, publication on August 22, 2025.
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