Portraits en altitude – Louisa Allamand

Louisa Allamand is a retired farmer who lives in a small village in Haute-Savoie. From 1978 to 1982, three photographers and a sound engineer visited her in her farm, the Hauts Choseaux. But Louisa has never let herself be photographed since she was thirty, “ever since she saw some photographs of elderly people lying in dust bin.” She nostalgically and modestly describes the moment when she ceased to dream. She draws a terrible picture of the life she and other farmers lead in those mountains, of their work and their feeling of loneliness. ” Children leave you and husbands just can’t understand you.” Today she feels old, as if “emptied from within “.