Six thousand Post code of Charleroi. Ancien industriel city in Belgium, called “The black city”. Formely covered in coal dust; Charleroi is particular, strange, awkward. A small town where almost eveybody knows each other. And here I am, coming from the outside. Discovering a fascinating world. An univers completely different than what I used to know. They made me come, knowing I was a photographer. I came back the next weekend, and the weekend after that... Then everytime I could. I started to live with them. To follow their routine, to enter in their privacy. And their daily life. It became mine. I became one of their. They became my family. A world made of parties, laughs, lies, weed, troubles, excitements, dreams and derision, alcohol,... A world build around the present moment. We were enjoying life, fully. An african mentality on the eu- ropean territory. A way more authentic world then the one I knew before. Intense. The one that awakens instincts. The one that shows what adrenaline really is. A world that challenges everything. A world that puts your reality into perspective. A love story is born there between me and one of them : Django. Immersed and overwhelmed by so many things... Let me introduce you what was the rapper group Madil City Gang.

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