Jehane Mahmoud enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2010, where she discovered color analog photography. From shooting to darkroom printing, she found in this traditional machinery an intimate and reassuring process, akin to a ritual. She also trained in video and produced experimental works in which she brings into dialogue images of everyday life and of those close to her with poems she writes herself. She considers the image as a talisman, capable of capturing or taming ghosts and traumas. Her still and moving images explore themes related to ancestral memory and the decolonization of bodies. She moved to Marseille in 2021, where she continues her visual and narrative explorations at a slow pace. This city, steeped in history and light, brings her closer to her aspirations in writing and filmmaking, and inspired her to write her first fiction film, L’enfance poète, a fantastical tale at a child’s eye level. The film amplifies subtle connections between beings through a dreamlike initiatory journey imbued with poetic language. In 2025, she was invited by Flora Fettah to collaborate with Camille Soualem on an exhibition at Galerie Vidéochroniques.

Shed Publishing is an independent publishing house specializing in essays and children’s literature. Intended as a space for both accessible and thoughtful debate, Shed draws on collective intelligence, singular expressions, and the curiosity essential to any transformation. In 2025, Shed opened a venue in Marseille, offering the public a program of workshops and meetings, as well as open sessions where both adults and children are invited to consult an anti-colonial collection of printed materials, including books, fanzines, and archives.

Natacha Djedji is a street reader and cultural mediator for young audiences, working with an art therapy association. She is co-director of a long-term documentary on systemic racism in France and also works as a consultant and trainer. Through her work with book professionals and early childhood educators, she seeks to make visible the invisible structures that shape us, aiming to ensure the necessary space for everyone to act on the ways society has shaped us—paying particular attention to the adult domination exerted over the youngest.

Gabriel Allegret is a doctoral student in sociology and primatology, focusing on adult domination and intrafamilial violence. His research explores the politicization of childhood, critiques of education, and adult domination, examining its connections with other forms of domination (male, colonial, capitalist, ableist, and speciesist). He is also the founder of the website Adultissime, which provides resources on adultism and childism (https://adultissime.org/).

Shereya was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, where her education was shaped by women teachers and her grandfather, an artisan. In her work, she explores unpredictability and draws on gambiarra (or “practical intelligence,” inventive problem-solving through bricolage) to inform her practice on possible images of democracy within racialized bodies and Cuir (queer) performativity. She seeks to provoke a repositioning of pedagogical and artistic language, navigating between vulnerability and confusion—from dream to nightmare, from the subtle to the obscene—and thus explores ways of implementing a pedagogy that is “FLUID, decolonial, anti-racist, and non-binary.” Shereya graduated from the Master Exerce program at ICI–CCN Montpellier in 2022, where she developed the projects ALÉM DE VOCÊS, O QUE TEM PRA COMER HOJE? (Besides you, what’s there to eat today?) and NUAGES CLOUDS NUVENS Intergalactiqueer. She is currently a dancer in Apocalypso by Luara Raio; Feijoada and Bruits Marrons by Calixto Neto; Prophétique (on est déjà né.es) by Nadia Beugré; Chamanik by Lasseindra Lanvin; Arrebentação by Catol Teixeira; and the project Mujeres sin Fronteiras with Acceptess-T.