ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Amboasary South, MADAGASCAR – June 2014 – Oil and rice distribution for the 1200 refugees in the village of Andranondambo, in the main place of the Amboasary South district. This distribution is organized by the State, the Malagasy Committee for Reconciliation (FFM) and the Malagasy Red-Cross. The 2000 inhabitants’ village has been completely destroyed on the 8th of May 2014 by a zebu stealers attack.

AUTHOR
Rijasolo, was born in France in 1973.
In 2004, he went back to Madagascar, the country of his roots, which he had not visited for 20 years. With the help of a local council in Brittany, he set up photography workshops for young people in the town of Antsiranana (Diego Suarez). At the same time he started a wandering work called “MIVERINA”, in which he strove to show how difficult it was to regain an intimate relationship with Madagascar.
His selection at the 2005 Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine in Bamako gave him the confidence he need to work as a full-time photographer.
In December 2006, he embarked on a photojournalism course in Paris (EMI-CFD).
He was a reporter-photographer for the Wostok Press agency during the 2007 French presidential campaign, and in November of the same year, went on to set up RIVA PRESS (www.riva-press.com) in association with four photojournalists concerned with maintaining an independent view. Since he collaborates with french newspapers and magazines as Libération, Le Monde, VSD or Jeune Afrique whose is the correspondent for the Indian Ocean area.
In 2010, he won the 1st prize of Leica 35 mm wide angle contest.
In 2011, Rijasolo decided to return living in Madagascar where he focuses on reportage and corporate. Since 2012 he is AFP stringer as photographer.
In 2013, He published his first book of photography “Madagascar, nocturnes” (no comment® editions) about nightlife in Madagascar.

Rijasolo lives and works at Antananarivo, Madagascar.

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