Bruno Fert (1971) - Gilets. Samos Grèce, 2017

Bruno FERT (Born in 1971) Gilets. Samos, Greece, 2017 Passages 2017 Fine Art print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth paper, title and date inscribed in the margin 32 x 32 cm (40 x 50 cm) PASSAGES In the Mediterranean, off the Libyan coast, a boat is burning. It will disappear like thousands of lives devoured by the waves before reaching the lights of a better horizon. The sites I photograph are on the routes followed by exiles who dream of Europe. There I search for the scars and traces left in the landscapes: a few pebbles gathered in a forest on the island of Samos testify to trajectories of lives brutally interrupted. Elsewhere, it is the remnants of life jackets with colors consumed by the sun that tell us of a harrowing crossing. One can imagine silhouettes disembarking from a boat to run to shelter among the foliage, shedding the clues of their clandestine journey. Boats seized and numbered by the border police lie motionless on the shore. Arrived in Italy, some write in charcoal fragments of their story on the walls of a house abandoned in the village of Case Gina. Others discard their worn clothes after passing the barbed wire of the French border above Menton. While our world bristles with barriers and walls, there appear as many breaches through which women and men pass or perish. Bruno Fert — Documentary photographer Bruno Fert develops a deeply humanist body of work devoted to exile, migrations and the traversed territories. From disappeared Palestinian villages to the precarious refuges of migrants, he photographs less the event than its traces. With Passages, he continues this work on the routes of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those who attempt to reach Europe. A precise and silent photograph, where the landscape becomes bearer of memory.

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