Salah Benacer–Inclose

Salah Benacer, an independent photojournalist, has released his first book, Inclose. The work takes the form of a photographic essay presenting three reports on the theme of confinement. These images of daily life focus on relationships with space and time imposed by the conditions of existence, or family and societal constraints as they are experienced in different environments. His first report takes him a psychiatric hospital in Antoby on Madagascar. Benacer documents the lives of the patients (sick, mentally and physically disabled, drug addicts) suspected of being possessed by the devil. In order to reassure their families, the patients are chained down and exorcised. The second report was made in Bulgaria, in the largest Roma ghetto in Central Europe: the camps of Nadezdha (‘Hope’ in Bulgarian). The photographer shows us these thousands of people struggling to survive in confinement. Excluded from society and with no chance of social integration, they live behind this wall three meters high, which, paradoxically, both isolates them and protects them. These fortified walls symbolize a life with no way out. Finally, the third part of the book is a series on Karabakh, South Caucasus, a phantom republic surrounded entirely by Azerbaijan. The armies of the two countries face each other across the border. Only a slim corridor connects Karabakh to Armenia. No government has recognized its existence. Karabakh is an instance of geopolitical confinement, a country whose isolation weighs on the fate of its people and the development of their society. Inclose – Salah Benacer Format 22×22cm 132 pages 79 photos BW 34,90 euros ISBN : 978-2-746643543 Limited to 1000 copies (which 100 signed and numbered) Available for sale on website : http://400asa.net