Both war and peace are generally incomprehensible for both those who live through them and those who observe and illustrate them. Since 2006 a young Frenchman has visited Iraq on…
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Miners, perhaps more than other workers, form part of the history and mythology of revolutionary and social struggles. Working hard and fighting hard, they embody courage and bravery. Systematically photographing…
Representation of conflict and of the combatant; Functional focus on conflict; Media influences and preconceived ideas; Virtual, reality: confusion of genres? These are the categories into which a young man…
Evidence, proof, traces; these stained torn garments are all that is left of missing people. Which will, perhaps, allow them to be identified. Choosing to approach the drama of his…
How and why would one fabricate a visual memory of what one has not directly experienced, in this case, in the Spanish Civil War? Because, by doing so, this event…
How does one photograph war? Certainly not by repeating pictures of corpses, answers the author who decided to re-appropriate images and subject satellite views of burnt villages in Darfur –with…
It is hell. Hell on earth, today, in Ghana, which in recent years has turned into one of the main destinations for electronic waste from Europe and the United States.…
In 2001, this artist, who defines himself as an activist, produced a series of photomontages that evoked the memory of the students massacred in 1976, the great numbers of military coups…
Composing in black and white, he was the first to use toys to convey his imaginary of the First World War. He continued to use them for the Second, even…