Éditions Sur la Crête publishes Captives, a book by Céline Levain. She presents her work as follows:
This series began during photographic workshops that I led in the women’s section of the Angoulême county jail and at the Vivonne penitentiary center. For 5 years, I photographed women prisoners who performed in the prison activity room. Then I looked for a way to represent the outside so present in minds and conversations by associating their portraits with landscapes that they had described to me and that I went and captured outside their walls. They could sometimes represent what they missed, sometimes an interior landscape, a memory or a projection towards somewhere else or an after which often turns out to be universal.
I sought, through this dialogue, to give these women their real power and to enrich their representation.
Celine Levain
[…]
There are
paths you will never know
the edges of mysterious forests
the wastelands of the soul
foam on the sea
foam galloping
much faster than a herd of wild horses
acceleration intensity momentum incredible speed
in the reveries of their suspended lives
the melancholy of
time suspended
time dragging
time that never ends
[…]
Excerpt from the text Dans la sombre forêt de l’existence by Pauline Delabroy-Allard which accompanies the book.
Céline Lvain: Captives
Text by Pauline Delabroy-Allard
Éditions Sur la Crête
Current edition • 400 copies
Soft cover with flap • 68 pages / format 21×28.5 cm
30 color photographs
Printing on Symbol matt plus premium white / 130 g and Old Mill Bianco 130 g
Glued square spine binding
ISBN 978-2-494272-04-0
€28
