Ethnocolor Project

Initially, ETHNOCOLOR is a photographic project based on traditionnal festivities studies & archivals in an internationnal scale which has started in 1999 by Rozenn Leboucher’s initiatives.

She has therefore realised a batch of reportages on various subject whereby singular ethnical populations, often threaten of extinction, are shown to their best original way.

Her major focus is to show the immense diversity and originality of world cultures.

Her Ethnocolor Exhibition expresses a global vision of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity that UNESCO tends to protect.

She hopes to increase worldwide respect by showing how these cultures maintain an intense passion for ancestral traditions.

She wants to initiate present and futur generations to the deep nature of these multiple cultural heritages.

” Within these various documentary photographs, I have therefore tried to reveal the peculiarities of these far-flung festivities and to immortalise their local customs.

Attempting to promote the immense cultural diversity of these peoples takes root in one sole purpose: to raise awareness of the nature and the richness of worldwide heritages that are nowadays often in danger.

After having rubbed shoulders with locals and understood their pride to practise their ancestral rites, it felt essential to me to make people share the human aspects hidden behind these patches of colourful costumes that I have often discovered in rough places and arid surrounding lands.

“Although discovery and exploration have raked over the planet, human adventure is far from over. And even though African, Latin and Asian art, fashion, music and literature have infiltrated Western pop-culture, it is truly more inspiring to encounter the soul of these people in their homeland.

Whether it is expressed through ancient Animism, Confucianism, the various schools of Buddhism, the sects of Christianity, or the mythology of Hinduism, all maintain at their collective core an ancestral folklore tradition.

I hope each of us will help protect this cultural heritage around the globe. Through my travels and meetings, races, colors, borders have become blurred in exchange for a smile, a handshake.