Project Description
Vincent Tremeau | OCHA
One Day,
I Will
By Melissa Metzgar and Kristen Pou
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Efforts (UN OCHA) working alongside photographer Vincent Tremeau to create the project titled One Day, I Will. The photography shares the aspirations of young girls caught in humanitarian conflicts and natural disasters around the world.
Due to these crises, girls were prevented from going to school to ensure their safety, but to the detriment of their educational progress. However, this has not stopped them from dreaming about their future. The project One Day, I Will highlights each girl dressed as who she wishes to become when she grows up. Their costumes and props each girl made from her immediate surroundings, is a testimony to her abilities, hope, and resilience despite harsh conditions.
Photographer Vincent Tremeau born in Montpellier, France in 1984, is a photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. In 2007, he spent a year in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he began to use photography to break out of his natural shyness and begin talking to new people. After graduating law school for business, Tremeau decided he wanted to work for humanity, rather than for businesses. He went to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he began to use his photography as a tool for story-telling and raising awareness. Now, Tremeau works with non-government organizations worldwide, most recently on One Day I will, presented by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Images by Vincent Tremeau
Melissa Metzgar received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Kutztown for her art history studies and served as a curatorial intern and gallery director for over two years. She has also worked to digitally catalog the archives of the Missionaries of Africa in Rome. Melissa is currently working to obtain her Master’s in Art History from John Cabot University.
Kristen Pou has worked in Wheaton’s Art History department as a gallery intern, practicing exhibition design and installation, art sales and insurance, and event planning. After completing a master’s degree with John Cabot University, she plans to continue pursuing a career in curatorial work and later become a professor of Art History.