Gregoire Blond

I invite you to read the wonderful journal of Kim Donaldson, Africa.

 Kim Donaldson, an internationally renowned wildlife artist, grew up in Zimbabwe on a 150,000-acre ranch of unspoiled African bush country traversed by rivers, hills, and valleys and teeming with game.

It is this stunning landscape that first inspired him to swap his hunting rifle for a camera and a sketchpad . . . and begin a lifelong passion for capturing on paper the wildlife of his native continent. Donaldson's stunning paintings and sketches have an intangible quality that can only be achieved by someone who has spent many years in the bush.

Filled with spellbinding information about wildlife, culture, and history, this captivating journal is packed with scores of paintings, sketches, maps, and excerpts from Donaldson's diaries and notebooks to create a vivid and multilayered impression of this mysterious continent. Magnificent photographs and dramatic illustrations detail the spectacular plains Donaldson has visited, including Masai Mara, South Africa's Cape and Natal regions, the Serengeti, and Zembezi Valley, and more. The result is an enthralling journey through the magnificent expanse of Africa's most wonderful and surprising natural wonders.

Since 2004, I help the association Abej. It is a place to accomodate in day, the men without residence to allow them to be posed, to be listened, to wash themselves, to look after themselves.

I manage the non-alcoholic bar, I give some coffee, tea, soup... and also a listening.

Voluntary help is necessary for an association without important budget. But it's also a fantastic experience for the volunteers.

This experience give me a vision of the society than normaly people doen't see. I could speak to immigrants without working papers, to drug addicts, to men without plan for their life...

It's hard, but I feel useful every wenesday afternoon.