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Séverine Sajous, 1er premio NM, 2021

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  • (Left) My first encounter with Zelie. The ultrasound when I learned that I was pregnant. I had not planned the pregnancy but I wonder if deep down I really had wanted it as I did have that desire to be a mother, while maybe not in this way. But, I felt the need to call it an “accident” for fear of what people would think, "You don't have a stable situation” they would say “This will end your career"....But that wasn’t what happened. (Right) The first photo of Zelie &me.
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  • Zelie's second birthday at Maria's home on October 26, 2019. The “annual" Whatsapp with Ahmed, Zelie’s father, on November 2, 2019. The letter I’ve written for Zelie to open when she’s 7 and in which I explain the enigma of her date of birth. I broke up with Ahmed when I was 8 months pregnant. The pressure from his Egyptian Muslim family was too much for me and our relationship. The cultural differences, the fears and the threats….. it was over.
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  • Maria was born in this very building, on this same floor, on February 13,1944. Zelie is growing up in the apartment in front of hers. Every morning Zelie knocks on Maria’s door, shouting her name. If Maria doesn’t answer in time, Zelie falls apart on the landing.
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  • Maria has left Zelie some advice from her experience raising her son Xavi. A reflection of her loneliness. 1. Study hard 2. Live with your family 3. Be good to the world 4. Do what you want.
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  • (Left) Family archive. As if a metaphor to the disappearance of Maria's husband and a woman who turns to her son. "It was always the three of us until February 12, 2014, when "Tichou" decided to take another road forever, leaving my son and I behind, the same way he always did. The end." (Right) Maria's morning routine. Coffee & loneliness.
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  • (left) Archive photos. ID photo of Maria and her son. (right) I made 5 photographs of nature for Maria and asked her to choose one. She chose the cactus which she said reflects her relationship with her son who lives three streets from us, but who never comes to visit her. "Xavi always does his thing, but he does call me every day at 9 at night. I think it's a matter of character.”
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  • (Left) Zeile kisses Maria, reminiscent of Sleeping Beauty. (Right) Maria’s tele-assistance necklace for the elderly people living alone. Maria explains First Aid assistance responded 4 different times to calls from Zelie who hit the button by mistake, playing with the necklace. Finally Maria told them she didn’t need the necklace anymore because she had Zelie!
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  • Zelie and Maria as one. “When I feel lonely and sad, there is another story I need to remember. That of a mother and her child who became my neighbors. She was a single mother and it changed my life. Now I’m happy as I receive all the love in the world.”
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  • Maria and Zelie, in Maria's bathroom. An image that seems to highlight my own family framework.
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  • (Right) Maria was photographed on the terrace of our building in 1965. (Left) Self-portrait on the same terrace in 2019.
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