Pôle Nord - Pôle Sud

Along its 20,000 km, the Prime Meridian covers almost 13,000 km of oceanic expanses and only 7,000 km of continent. Which is representative of the proportions of the Planet as a whole, 70% of which are covered by seas and oceans. From North to South, the Prime Meridian leaves the Arctic ice fields, runs across the temperate and Mediterranean climates of Europe, the arid, desert and tropical zones of Africa, before running into ice again in the south Atlantic and the vast expanses of Antarctica. It crosses different landscapes, meadows, fields, forests, old villages and modern towns in Great Britain and France, the high mountains of the Pyrenees and the Atlas, the endless sand dunes of the Grand Erg Occidental and the rocky plains of the Sahara, the steppes of Mali and Burkina Faso, tropical rain forest in Ghana. More than half of the Prime Meridian, the Sahara and Antarctica, are deserts where virtually nobody lives. But along the remaining half, barely more than 3,000 km , what human richness !

Steven Weinberg, professor of biology, has traveled along the Meridian by car, on foot, in dug-out canoes, in order to meet its inhabitants, camera and notebook always close at hand. Along the way, he has spoken to warmhearted, beautiful, captivating people. The Prime Meridian, on its own, constitutes a summary of the treasures of our Earth. That is what the adveturer/photographer/scientist wanted to express through the exhibition "Pôle Nord - Pôle Sud".