Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Brigitte Beudin Guillaume
Brigitte Beudin Guillaume has managed education and care services for children and adolescents in Nice for more than twenty years. Lecturer at the Haute École du Travail et de l' Intervention Sociale (formerly IESTS), she remains committed to her missions of transmission to future professionals whom she considers to be "transmitters of humanity". Co-author of the book "Aux frontières des territoires de l' ordinaire, une institution soignante au cœur d' un quartier sensible" published in 2017 (Ed L' Harmattan), she has since given a poetic tone to her writing. Some of her poems have been published in poetry anthologies (Éd Flammes Vives, 2020 and 2021) and received a UNICEF Europoésie honorary prize (2020).
Lara Montagnac
Lara Montagnac, a clinical psychologist for over fifteen years, works in private practice and in various settings welcoming children, adolescents, and adults. A trainer at the Institut Repères and HETIS, she demonstrates her humanist commitment to various local associations. Co-author of the book "Aux frontières des territoires de l'ordinaire, une institution soignante au cœur d'un quartier sensible" published in 2017 (Ed L'Harmattan), it is as a photographer that she illustrates this poetic collection. Attached to visual art, she competes in various photography festivals. Awarded at the "Cannes Photo Awards" in 2011 and the "Photomenton" in 2016, she regularly exhibits in the South of France.
In the shadow of words, images emerge, and behind the images lies the unspeakable. Creation questions our relationship to the world and to others, thus revealing certain human, social, and ecological impasses into which we sink. This work summons our dark side, inviting us to question the obvious, to leave room for doubts and thus to bring forth a light of hope. In order for anger to take the path of hope, must we not, from now on, give voice to our part of humanity?
