Severine Sajous

Photographer, co-author and co-producer of the project “The Selfie of Migrations”. In 2015 she created Jungleye, a participatory photography association with and for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. Since then, she has devised and organized numerous photography workshops in Europe and the Middle East. Her work aims to develop projects that raise awareness and sensitize people to migration issues based on stories told in the first person. She also organizes workshops with a therapeutic methodology exclusively for women to deal with exile and the violence they suffer. She has worked with numerous organizations and foundations, including Médicins sans Frontières, Medicos del Mundo and the International Committee of the Red Cross. She is co-director of the short film Mot de passe: Fajara (prize for the best documentary short at the International Film Festival in Pielagos, Spain 2018), using a new visual language to show the situation of migrants in Calais.