Une reine, un refuge

"You got to be fortunate, you got to be lucky now / I was just sitting here; thinking good and bad / But I’m the kind of woman that was built to last / They tried erasing me, but they couldn’t wipe out my past / To save my child I’d rather go hungry" (Neneh Cherry, Woman).

One afternoon in Diego-Suarez. A woman tends to her children. An almost sacred light filtering through the trees transforms this everyday moment into something resembling a theatrical scene. Everything seems to revolve around this mother and her children.
The setting is modest, yet never pitiful. On the contrary, it radiates dignity and a sense of serenity. A passer-by crosses the frame, casting a fleeting glance at the scene.
At the centre of the image, a hanging cloth in the same almond-green tones as the rest of the composition provides an escape route from the photograph, a tangent leading elsewhere.