Pascal Bollon

Tagged: Cameroon

1938 March 7 | CLAUDE | Transvaal Blue Skies | 1938 Mar 06 - Africa - Cameroon- camp 6 - Baptism Claude (second daughter of Suzanne and François Dulière) at Betare Oya mission

1938 March 7 | CLAUDE

Camp 6, Doroko on the Mari river.
Zanne was now discarded, irrelevant, a memory of someone now gone. Suzanne remained. And happened to Life. Oh, she believed scrupulously in God, in Country, State, Polite Society, School, Medicine, Cuisine and commonly held rules. Else, what would society become? Packs of feral…

1937 Summer | Farming with a VENGEANCE | Transvaal Blue Skies

1937 Summer | Farming with a VENGEANCE

Cameroon, Mari River. It is drier than Katanga, more primal, rawer. The monkey crawls up to nestle in the crook of her elbow. Both hands tucked in her apron, Suzanne looks at the view. Their view. Later tonight, an exhausted François and his team will emerge from the treeline, after…

1937 January | Dead Drop | Transvaal Blue Skies

1937 January | Dead Drop

She will forever be, for any of them, the one that abandoned her child. She could never fix that, why even try?
“Life is a sh*t sandwich you bite every day.” ~ Suzanne Dulière, 1982, verbatim.

1936 September 17 | Running to You | Transvaal Blue Skies

1936 September 17 | Running to You

The first time, it is a bucket list of hopes, dreams and plans that shatter into a million wonders, surprises and threats. The second time, it is anticipation, excitement and anxiety. Drink in that trepidation.
For the third time, it just is.