Invited by Forum Vies Mobiles, Centre Photographique Marseille, and Réseau Diagonal to take part in the national photographic commission Les vies qu’on aime, I am developing a new documentary project exploring women’s football in Marseille as a space of collective emancipation and grassroots engagement.
Inspired by my own practice of football within the Marseille Panthers club, and later US Endoume, I began documenting our training sessions, the bonds of complicity between players, and their journeys to the field. These movements reveal the affective and social geography of women’s sport in a city marked by urban fragmentation and the diversity of its neighborhoods.
I wish to extend this work to other women’s football clubs in Marseille. By photographing players from their homes to the field, and by capturing these passages between intimate and public spheres, I aim to map the diversity of practices, mobilities, and social ties that are woven around women’s football.
At the heart of this project is a desire to show how we reclaim our free time through sport—finding personal fulfillment, a sense of belonging, and territorial anchoring. Football thus appears as a vector of social connection, autonomy, and solidarity, inviting us to rethink the city through the bodies that move across it, inhabit it, and transform it on a daily basis.
A first exhibition is scheduled in Marseille in May 2026.