Bruno Fert (1971) - Al-Qubayba - N 31°53’35.7’’ E 34°46’076’’ - 05.1948

Bruno FERT (Born in 1971) Al-Qubayba - N 31°53’35.7’’ E 34°46’076’’ - 05.1948 The Absents, 2016 Fine Art print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth paper, title and date written in the margin 32 x 32 cm (40 x 50 cm) In 1948, the creation of the Hebrew state triggered the first Israeli-Arab war and the exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinians to neighboring countries. What remains today of their towns and villages emptied of their inhabitants? It is to answer this question that I went to Israel: to find again and photograph the vestiges of these ghostly localities disappeared in the whirlwind of the 48 war. This report is a voyage through time; a visual journey to the origins of the refugee question. These images are a testimony to a key moment in the region’s history whose consequences are today at the heart of our current events. Bruno Fert — Documentary photographer Bruno Fert develops a deeply humanist body of work devoted to exile, to migrations and to the traversed territories. From vanished Palestinian villages to the precarious shelters of migrants, he photographs less the event than its traces. With Passages, he continues this work on the roads of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those who strive to reach Europe. A precise and silent photography, where the landscape becomes a bearer of memory.

Estimation:€800

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