Drive Thru Flint

• Environmental and social issues reportage, from Flint, Michigan • First edition limited to 500 copies "The only difference between your town and Flint is that the Grim Reaper just likes to visit us first" - Michael Moore, movie director October 2015 Flint, Michigan, USA; is the eleventh cardinal point of the Datazone constellation. Neighboring Detroit, currently abandoned to a disastrous de-industrialization, the city was once the stronghold of General Motors, main employer and creator of the cult object of American happiness. The photographer dives into the abandoned neighborhoods, enters neglected houses, and lays his eyes on hidden lives declared by Barack Obama in 2016, for deadly lead pollution in water supplies, a nefarious consequence of the factories' grounding. In a context of great insecurity, Philippe Chancel 'samples the real.' Read more