What makes a city? A neighborhood?

Its history, its buildings, its inhabitants?

Regards Croisés is a project born of these questions, and of the collaboration between Emmanuelle Foussat, myself and the association ETHNOLOGUES EN HERBE in the Val Coteau (les Fauvettes) district of Neuilly-Sur-Marne.

In the context of the Grand Paris renovation project, this area, with its long and particularly rich history, lent itself to our dual approach - artistic and sociological. While photography enabled us to take ownership of the neighborhood, to give shape to ideas and feelings, ethnology looked at the links between territory and identity, from a historical and intergenerational perspective, in order to draw parallels between individual histories and that of a city undergoing profound change.

This fanzine is the result of workshops with children, interviews with local residents and numerous encounters on site.

It invites us to take a stroll through the neighborhood, combining photo reports, archive images and personal accounts, to (re)discover it through our own eyes.

Thanks to AGIR inseinesaintdenis, the BATIGERE EN ILE-DE-FRANCE Foundation, the DILCRAH, the City of Neuilly-sur-Marne, Eric Graziano, Florent Leroy and, of course, all the participants!