« Social emergency, ecological emergency, humanitarian emergency, there is emergency and we do not want to be an ordinary public or ordinary illustrators. Like many other photographers and journalists, we still dare to believe that a journalist or a photographer is not supposed to be just a sound box of the daily life we are dropped out of. »

États d’urgence (« states of emergency ») are six professional photographers. From the heart of mobilizations and major contemporary issues, they provide a point of view on the current events that is free from any sensationalism and bear witness to multiple urgencies all over France: social movement, migration crisis, state violence, ecology… With a view to see the world around us in another way.