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  • Border Lines

    Border Lines

    Border Lines is a testimony about the borders, both visible and invisible, which separate Israelis and Palestinians, as well as those which cross and divide from inside these two societies. With this project I use photography in its composite form to recreate representations of these fragmented spaces.
  • Utopias

    Utopias

    It was called ‘the ideal city’. In the 1950’s, Eisenhüttenstadt (formerly Stalinstadt) was the flagship city of the DDR.
  • Good work!

    Good work!

    Words and faces of the employees of the LU factory of Ris-Orangis, France, who learnt one day of January, 2004, by the media, that their nevertheless profitable factory was going to be closed.
  • The Confession

    The Confession

    In Rwanda, in the province of Kibuyé, I interviewed and photographed men and women who had confessed to their participation in the genocide of the Tutsis ten years earlier.
  • Municipal Pool

    Municipal Pool

    In the summertime, the swimming pool of the suburban town of Châtillon–Malakoff, located just outside Paris, attracts up to 2,500 people daily. Revealed bodies, recomposed social identities, presences to the world singular: portraits of unknown persons in swimsuit.
  • Itsembatsemba

    Itsembatsemba

    On April 6th, 1994, the  the cleansing fever swept down on Rwanda. In 100 days, soldiers, militiamen and civilians massacred more than 750 000 persons of the tutsie minority, in the indifference of the international community.