Une porte entre deux mondes. [ Dans les Boxin’ Gym de Jamestown ]

Quartier de Jamestown, Accra. Ghana.

Derrière cette porte se trouvent l’école. Quand Hakkim, 9 ans, fait l’école buissonnière, la maitresse sait où le trouver. Juste là, derrière la palissade bleue, au Bronx Boxing Gym, club que fonda son père Lawrence Lokko, il y a 15 ans.

Son oncle Francis, le coach du club, me confie en riant : » il fait de la boxe depuis toujours, il a l’oeil du tigre ce gamin! A peine en âge de marcher, il travaillait déjà son jeu de jambes ! « .

Hakkim n’a qu’un rêve, être un jour champion comme Richie Commey qui lui aussi, s’entraine Au Bronx Boxin’ Gym.

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Cyril Abad

Cyril Abad has been working as a freelance documentary and corporate photographer for the past ten years. After having worked as an advertising and fashion photographer, from 2010, he will start working as a documentary photographer with a singular and often offbeat look at the place of man in society. He regularly collaborates with the magazine press through original reports such as "Blackpool, the Brexit holidays" or "The last dreamers". In 2016 he begins a 3-year project called "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the original forms of religion in the United States, the territory of predilection of his work. This project is published many times internationally and in France and is exhibited among others in 2019 at Visa Pour l'Image, at the international festival of Saint Brieuc, at the Nicephore Biennale of Clermont-Ferrand and in many galleries. At the same time, he directs his activity as a corporate photographer towards the building and industrial sectors. For more than 10 years, he has been working with major groups in the building, energy, aeronautics and services sectors in France and abroad.

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