How not see a network of close interconnexions between several worlds in Su dance, Shiite rituals, Peul scari cations. The reduction of photography to the documentary form prevents access to a universe, that of a human community which turns sacri ce into the supreme act of knowledge. The exuberance and pleasure experienced in the solitude of pain pay tribute to the dead and the gods. Serenity and ecstasy are at the end of the journey of abandonment and violence. If it is true that thes…