Bruno Fert (1971) - Jaffa - Cimetière Abdel Nabi - N 32°5’16’’ E 34°46’11’’

Bruno FERT (Born in 1971) Jaffa - Abdel Nabi Cemetery - N 32°5’16’’ E 34°46’11’’ Les 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 Arab-Israeli 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 locate and photograph the vestiges of these ghostly localities disappeared in the swirl of the 1948 war. This reportage is a voyage through time; a visual pilgrimage to the origins of the refugee issue. These images are a testimony to a key moment in the history of the region 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, migrations, and the traversed territories. From vanished Palestinian villages to the precarious refuges 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 seek to reach Europe. A precise and silent photography, where the landscape becomes a bearer of memory.

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