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To celebrate its 150th anniversary the SMA BTP, France's main building construction insurance company, asked me to make a series of portraits of their clients and employees.
Essentially the role of a good insurance company is to assume their client's danger factors and juggle with the risks that their clients take.
These photographs were all taken in and around office buildings insured by the SMA BTP throughout France.
Everyday, white collar office workers, working in the construction field, have to cheat danger and manage risk, often in places where one might expect it the least.
No computer tricks.
Everything is real.
Aujourd'hui retraitée, Michèle Girard est entrée à la SMABTP en 1960, à l'âge de 17 ans, comme employée aux écritures de la police décennale. Elue quatre ans plus tard au comité d'entreprise pour créer une association sportive, elle sera, en tant que déléguée CGT, la secrétaire du C.E. pendant trente-sept ans. Agent de maîtrise puis cadre, elle achèvera sa carrière à la Socabat.
