Bruno Fert (1971) - es Absents, Liftâ - 31°47’43 N 35°11’47 E-01.1948

Bruno FERT (Born in 1971) Les Absents, Liftâ - 31°47’43 N 35°11’47 E-01.1948 Fine Art print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth paper, title and date inscribed, signed in pencil in the margin 32 x 25.5 cm (40 x 50 cm) In 1948, the creation of the Hebrew state triggered the first Arab-Israeli war and the exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinians to neighboring countries. What remains today of their towns and villages emptied of their inhabitants? It is to answer this question that I went to Israel: to locate and photograph the vestiges of these ghostly localities disappeared in the swirl of the 48 war. This reportage is a journey through time; a visual pilgrimage to the origins of the refugee question. These images are a testimony to a key moment in the region’s history whose consequences are today at the heart of our current affairs. Bruno Fert — Documentary photographer Bruno Fert develops a deeply humanitarian body of work devoted to exile, migrations and the traversed territories. From vanished Palestinian villages to the precarious shelters of migrants, he photographs less the event than its traces. With Passages, he continues this work along the routes of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those who try to reach Europe. A precise and silent photography, where the landscape becomes a bearer of memory.

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