Earlier this week, visitors to Arles had many opportunities to cross paths with Guillaume Chamahian as he marched through the city putting up images extracted from his series Bosnia. Eight large-format photographs (1.5 x 2.5 m) call out to visitors about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. “It took time for me to ingest the history of Bosnia and the images of it. It took time for me to understand that I’m looking for answers that I’ll maybe never find.”
No information is given on the posters except the name of the city where the picture was taken. To learn more, passersby are invited to use their cell phones to read the flash code next to each image. This work has been well received by the public. Their discussions with the photographer offer new perspectives on our attempts to understand this massacre.
Read the full text of this article by Wilfrid Estève on the French version of Le Journal.
