[Esper ’ar] in Portuguese or Spanish: wait, hope …
These photos express an expectation: of somewhere else, of a departure, of an arrival, of a mystery to be elucidated, expectation of nothing. In a chaotic slide, made of twists and turns, which goes from port to port – from Lisbon to Odessa, via Tangier, Marseille and Istanbul, Antwerp or Trieste – we are between two (shores), suspended.
Is it an imagined approach to reality? of a fictional universe, nourished by a documentary context? More than ever, the border is in any case slim between the real and the imaginary.
This project exhibited in part in Odessa, Marseille, Geneva, remains to be shown in its entirety.
Gérald Assouline is a photographer and director of documentary films. He lives in the Alps.
