Syracuse

In Bure, a small French commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region, French and German opponents of nuclear power have been campaigning for decades against the construction of a permanent disposal site for highly radioactive nuclear waste. The opposition movement took shape in the Lejuc forest, where Jürgen Nefzger photographed the everyday life of a group of protesters who had made the woods their temporary home until the camp was cleared in February 2018. The images clearly show the asymmetry between a heavily armed state and the resistance of a few individuals, who at first glance seem to have no chance. As a gesture, however, the protest has an inherent latency, representing an irrepressible, no?Bure, a long-term photographic study of modern-day civil resistance is influenced by Henry David Thoreaus text 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience'. This groundbreaking essay from 1849 is published here as an accompaniment to Nefzgers photographs.<br/>

Le photographe propose un reportage sur les opposants au projet Cigéo d'enfouissement des déchets radioactifs à Bure, dans la Meuse. Ces militants, venus de toute la France et d'autres pays européens, ont occupé le bois Lejuc entre l'été 2016 et la fin de l'hiver 2018, avant d'être expulsés par 500 gendarmes. J. Nefzger fait le portrait de ces activistes et de leurs campements.<br/>