Eunice photographer’s work featured in book

A Mardi Gras runner poses for a photo by David Simpson during the  Church Point Courir de Mardi Gras on Feb. 23, 2020.
A Mardi Gras runner poses for a photo by David Simpson during the Church Point Courir de Mardi Gras on Feb. 23, 2020.

“Courir,” 128-page book published in France with photographs depicting Mardi Gras runs in rural Acadiana, will be on sale at a book launch held at Fred’s Lounge, 420 6th St. in Mamou, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Olivier Duport, co-founder of the FLEE Project, a Paris-based group that documents unique cultures worldwide, selected the photographs for the book from an extensive archive of photographs tak…