ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Reportage on family carers. A family carer is a person who helps someone in their family when they lose their autonomy, due to illness or old age. Mimie had to go and live in her mother's apartment when her father died. Mimie's mother, who is 98, cannot walk any more and has to be helped in all her daily activities. She requires constant attention which limits Mimie to 4 hours off per week, during which a female attendant helps out. The situation of family carers is largely unknown in France, to such an extent that in many cases, carers don't even know they are carers. Yet there are 8.3 million people aged 16 or over, who regularly help out at one of their close family member's homes.

AUTHOR
Born in 1987 in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, I studied photography at Lycée des Arts Appliqués Auguste Renoir, Paris till 2007. I began a first project on the Maoist revolution which was taking place in Nepal. The following year I began my work with BSIP Agency, based in Paris. But, willing to continue my work in Asia I went in south India to study journalisme at Manorama School of Communication in Kottayam, Kerala. I did an internship at AFP bureau of New Delhi, during that time I worked on a project: « The yellow line of Delhi Metro ». Before living Asia, I went back to Nepal to work on two main reportages: « Himalayan yak keepers » and « Bhutanese refugee camps ».
When I came back to Paris, I focussed on health and social issues.

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