After the riots, people in the Paris suburbs believe they can change the face of the nation
In the second instalment of a journey around France in the run up to the presidential election, Angelique Chrisafis and Dan Chung meet residents on France's run down housing estates. Additional images of the 2005 riots by Getty Images, Ma lettre au président by Axiom.
Among the best-kept secrets of American visual culture are those plastic-lettered, brightly illuminated religious message boards that beseech all to “Repent Now,” “Be Saved” or “Make Us Instruments of Your Peace and Love.” Though in plain sight, they are virtually invisible, and like those ubiquitous convenience store displays announcing gas or egg prices, the average religious signboard offers the essentials — usually times and dates for worship or a spiritual bromide. But in CHURCH SIGNS ACROSS AMERICA (Overlook, $19.95), the photographers Steve Paulson and Pam Paulson have found and documented the uncommon poetry and sly wit used to rouse the flock, and the book is curiously inspirational.