Babacar Diagne, ancien DG de la RTS : « Macky Sall–Diomaye Faye, un TGP à un million de dollars »
According to several confirmed reports, former President Macky Sall will return to Senegal this Friday after a two-year absence. A handshake is expected with President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye.
Former president of the National Audiovisual Regulatory Council (CNRA) and former director general of Senegalese Radio and Television (RTS), Babacar Diagne commented on this confrontation, turning it into a million-dollar "close-up." Not a commercial image, he says, but a historic one. One that, in a few seconds, could encapsulate months of tension, anticipation, and questions. A gesture, two glances, an embrace: everything is there. The image-makers have no room for error. Politicians, for their part, will interpret it as they see fit: courtesy, de-escalation, a new beginning.
“One certainty, however, is already clear: if this moment is captured, it will instantly enter the archives of our collective memory. It will be reviewed, slowed down, enlarged, commented on and analyzed from all angles. Like all great political images, it may end up summarizing an era,” said the former head of the CNRA.
Babacar Diagne added: "On Friday, a very close-up shot could, in itself, tell an important chapter in the political history of Senegal." Here is the full text of his statement.
“Friday will be another TGP…”
On Friday, all cameras will be trained on a single objective. Every photographer will have their finger on the shutter. Every filmmaker will be holding their breath. Because under no circumstances can they miss the shot that an entire country is waiting for.
Just a few seconds. A handshake. Perhaps one of the most meaningful in recent years. A seemingly simple gesture, but one that could mark a significant turning point in our political life. An image capable of encapsulating, in itself, months of tension, questions, and expectations.
The extreme close-up will then take on its full significance. It will be necessary to capture the precise moment when hands meet, to seize a glance, a smile, an expression, the firmness of the embrace, its duration, perhaps even a few words exchanged in hushed tones. All these details often speak volumes more than official speeches or protocol statements.
In television, there are shots that go far beyond a simple professional exercise. They become documents. They transcend time because they capture a moment when history seems to hesitate before taking a new direction.
If this handshake does take place, everyone will interpret it in their own way. Some will see it as a gesture of republican courtesy. Others as a symbol of easing tensions between the former and current heads of state. Still others may see it as the prelude to a new phase in national political life. Time will tell how far this image will carry its impact.
One thing is already certain: if this moment is captured, it will instantly enter the archives of our collective memory. It will be reviewed, slowed down, enlarged, commented on, and analyzed from every angle. Like all great political images, it may ultimately come to define an era.
That's why, on Friday, image professionals will have no room for error. Woe to the camera operator who looks away, the photographer who presses the shutter a fraction of a second too late, or the director who chooses the wrong shot. In this profession, some moments are lost forever.
Great speeches belong to political actors. Great images belong to those who know how to capture them.
So why talk about a million-dollar TGP? Not because an image has a market price, but because some images have inestimable historical value. They become symbols, references, fragments of collective memory.
On Friday, a very close-up shot could single-handedly tell an important chapter in the political history of Senegal.
A million-dollar TGP.
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