Southwind : Snoeck Publishers : 9789461617576 : 9461617577 : 12 May 2023 : In 2019, artists Maxime Berthou and Mark Po?lep undertook a journey of several months on the Mississippi, from north to south. Their intention was to cross the United States along its most important waterway, brimming with life and marked by history, but also by abuse: from racism, unemployment and poverty to monoculture through to pollution. Along the river, they shot images of their encounters, also documented by sketches and notes in their logbook, but also collected many varieties of cereals, with the aim of later making the famous 'moonshine' alcohol, very popular during prohibition. A story that this book tells for the first time in its entirety, in words and images, with the help of testimonies, photographs and drawings, as well as essays signed in particular by the French film critic Antoine de Baecque. The project has already been presented as an installation at HISK Open Studios and, through an edu