Brigitte Beudin Guillaume
Brigitte Beudin Guillaume directed education and care services for children and adolescents in Nice for over twenty years. A lecturer at the Higher School of Work and Social Intervention (formerly IESTS), she remains committed to her mission of passing on knowledge to future professionals, whom she considers "bearers of humanity." Co-author of the book "At the Borders of Ordinary Territories: A Care Institution at the Heart of a Sensitive Neighborhood," published in 2017 (L'Harmattan), she has since given a poetic tone to her writing. Some of her poems have been published in poetry anthologies (Flammes Vives, 2020 and 2021) and she received a UNICEF Europoésie Honorary Award (2020).
Lara Montagnac
Lara Montagnac, a clinical psychologist for over fifteen years, practices in a private office and in various settings for children, adolescents, and adults. A trainer at the Repères Institute and HETIS, she demonstrates her humanist commitment through her involvement in several local associations. Co-author of the book "Aux frontières des territoires de l'ordinaire, une institution soignante au cœur d'un quartier sensibles" (On the Borders of the Ordinary: A Healthcare Institution at the Heart of a Sensitive Neighborhood), published in 2017 (L'Harmattan), she illustrates this collection of poetry as a photographer. Passionate about visual art, she participates in various photography festivals. A recipient of awards at the Cannes Photo Awards in 2011 and at Photomenton in 2016, she exhibits regularly in the South of France.
In the shadow of words, images take shape, and behind the images lies the unspeakable. Creation questions our relationship to the world and to others, potentially revealing certain human, social, and ecological dead ends into which we are sinking. This work summons our shadow self, inviting us to question assumptions, to make room for doubt, and thus allow a glimmer of hope to emerge. So that anger may find its way to hope, must we not, now, give voice to our shared humanity?
