It was in December 2016 that the photographer Romain Bernardie James departs for Congo - Brazzaville alongside the team Siestes Electroniques in search of fabrics and psychedelic subequatorial adventure.
Two years later, the earth trembles beneath the feet of the people in the capital, so hard that the shockwave is felt to Kinshasa.
But this time, it's not a freak of nature but rather from a series of explosions from the arsenal of the Congolese Armed Forces: 300 deaths, 2,300 injured and 14,000 homeless.
It was a March 4. On the same date and under gray skies in Paris, Coltesse requested The Imaginers to renew their collaboration on a new T-shirt after the success of "Happiness" (which sold out twice, www.theimaginers.fr/tee).
It is natural that when the channels were broadcasting the gloomy news that the desire was born to create this tee shirt in tribute to victims of Brazzaville.
Thus was born POTO POTO.
POTO POTO is a project initiated by Coltesse and The Imaginers in support of the action of the Red Cross as part of "Operation Congo Emergency 2016".
All profits from the sale of T-shirt will be donated to the Red Cross specifically for this operation.
The word poto-poto, besides being the name of the district Brazza means "trouble, trouble."
The Imaginers and Coltesse will present their project at a charity event, the profits of which will be donated to the Red Cross as part of the action committee Congo - Brazzaville.
The T-shirt made for the occasion and that displays a photo Roman Bernardie mames taken in Brazza will go on sale.