After many

Rap is a story of spaces. And for Simon Bouillère, it's more precisely the "Dirty South" that constitutes the Southern States. He chose to delve, through photography, into the interstices around Atlanta, Houston and Memphis.

Rap is a story of spaces, times and fictions. Simon Bouillère chose to delve, through photography, into the interstices around Atlanta, Houston and Memphis, cities that, according to local rappers, constitute the mythological Dirty South. Around, because you're never really in town. Everything is still suburb and urban forest. From there, the photographer unfolds a sensitive cartography of this territory, navigating between familiar figures. This project recounts Simon Bouillère's quest to find the right distance to photograph this territory, to assert his complex position towards this culture, which is virtually very familiar yet truly foreign, one particular to the generation of internet kids who dreamed of the USA from afar. The first images in the sequence show us arriving in the territory, which we're getting closer to, until this graffiti evoking the execution of George Stinney, a young African-American killed at the age of 14: the first shock. Because After many works on this dialectic, between the extreme youth of shattered lives, life at full speed to make the most of every moment advocated by rap, and omnipresent death. In addition to George Stinney, it's the figure of Young Dolph, that acts as a memento mori - we must remember that we're going to die, but also remember the dead. The territory is haunted by the violence of its past, which inhabits it in the form of these spectral images, and Simon Bouillère is a witness to it. In this capacity, the titles he proposes for each image evoke a historical fact linked to the territory, an anecdote about local rappers, or his personal situation at the time of shooting this pictures.