LES ESSENTIELS

Photos by

Giovanni Del Brenna

Simone Perolari

Ideation and production by: Giovanni Del Brenna and Simone Perolari

Exhibition produced by: Giovanni Del Brenna, Simone Perolari and the City of Paris

Exhibition and website design: Gabriele Peja / Kenitte

Ville de Paris

Olympiade Culturelle

The project Les Essentiels originated from a simple question: who are the workers who enable athletes to perform? Who take care of the clay courts at Roland Garros? How many gardeners work at the Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines? How do you build the Athlete’s Village from the ground up in record time?

We wanted to meet the people who build, maintain, and operate high-level sports facilities to put them in the spotlight and recognize their expertise.

Over the past three years, we’ve traveled across France, visited 13 venues, and met 46 people involved in the preparation for the Games. We’d like to thank them for allowing us to make this project a reality.

We discovered men and women, young and old, with careers as varied as their life paths, happy to share their everyday work with us, all dedicated to and passionate about the journey toward the Games.