Every year, as Ash Wednesday approaches, rural communities in southwest Louisiana are set into motion by the Courirs de Mardi Gras―ritualized runs in which masked and costumed participants travel from house to house, singing, dancing and begging for ingredients to prepare a communal gumbo. In Courir, photographer David Simpson offers a rare, intimate immersion into this living folk tradition, the result of more than 30 years of photographic engagement with Cajun and Creole Mardi Gras celebrations. Both ethnographic and poetic, it stands as a visual homage to a tradition rarely seen from within. Simpson’s photobook preserves a fragile cultural inheritance while honoring its vitality, offering readers a vivid encounter with a ritual that continues to evolve and bind communities together through shared performance and celebration.

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De 1974 jusqu'� sa retraite en 2009, David Simpson a travaill� � l'Universit� d'�tat de la Louisiane � Eunice, un campus de deux ans o� il enseignait l'anglais et �tait �galement directeur des relations publiques, un poste qui impliquait une importante activit� photographique. En 1999, il a commenc� � prendre des photographies de musiciens cadiens et zydeco ainsi que d'activit�s li�es au Mardi Gras rural. Ses photographies ont paru dans des journaux locaux, des magazines r�gionaux et des publications touristiques, et elles ont �t� incluses dans des livres sur la musique cadienne et zydeco ainsi que sur le Mardi Gras. En 2017, il a re�u le prix du patrimoine de la Cajun French Music Association. Simpson est titulaire de dipl�mes de ma�trise en anglais de l'Universit� de Caroline du Nord � Chapel Hill et en journalisme de l'Universit� d'�tat de la Louisiane, ainsi que d'un doctorat en anglais de l'Universit� d'�tat de l'Ohio.

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