What have you learnt from your parents? What do you want to pass on to your children? What difficult circumstances have you been through? What does love mean to you? Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his collaborators have asked forty questions to 5,000 people in interviews filmed in 75 countries around the world. The exhibition allows us to learn their answers and compare them with our own…


After the worldwide success of Earth From Above, this is the latest grand project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, conceived with the help of Sibylle d’Orgeval and Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire : « 6 milliards d’Autres » (6 billion others).

Via 5,000 interviews made throughout the world, Brazilian fishermen, Chinese shopkeepers, German performers, Afghan farmers… all have answered the same questions about their fears, dreams, ordeals and hopes.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand explains the project… « We live in amazing times. Everything moves at a crazy pace. I’m sixty years old, and when I think about how my parents lived, it seems scarcely believable. Today, we have at our disposal extraordinary tools for communication: we can see everything, know everything. The quantity of information in circulation has never been greater. All of that is very positive. The irony is that at the same time we still know very little about our neighbours. Now, however, the only possible response is to make a move towards the other person, to understand him. »

These portraits of contemporary humanity, some of which can be seen on the site www.6milliardsdautres.org are presented at the Grand Palais from 10th January to 12th February 2009. And via the site (which we you encourage you to visit) everyone can enrich the experience by replying to the same questions or even by translating other people’s replies in order to make them understandable to as many people as possible.

Here’s all the essential information for the « 6 milliards d’Autres » exhibition at the Grand Palais

When: 10th January to 12th February 2009
Where: Grand Palais, 3 avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris, métro Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau (lines 1 & 13). Bus n°s 28, 32, 42, 49, 72, 73, 80, 83 & 93
Opening hours: Wednesday to Monday, midday to 8pm. Late night opening on Fridays and Saturdays until 10pm. Closed Tuesdays
Admission: 5 euros for adults, 3 euros concessions. Free for under-18s and – for some reason – journalists
Official site: here

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