Bruno Fert (1971) - Les Absents, Sûbâ 31°47’5 N 35°7’26 E - 07.1948






Over 35 years' experience; former gallery owner and Museum Folkwang curator.
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Bruno Fert (Born in 1971)
The Absentees, Sûbâ 31°47’5 N 35°7’26 E - 07.1948,
The Absentees, 2016
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 neighbouring 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 vanished in the whirl of the 1948 war. This report is a journey through time; a visual trek to the origins of the refugee issue. 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 humanist body of work devoted to exile, migrations, and the traversed territories. From vanished Palestinian villages to the precarious refuges of migrants, he photographs less the event than its traces. With Passages, he continues this work along the roads of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those who strive to reach Europe. A precise and silent photography, where the landscape becomes a bearer of memory.
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Bruno Fert (Born in 1971)
The Absentees, Sûbâ 31°47’5 N 35°7’26 E - 07.1948,
The Absentees, 2016
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 neighbouring 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 vanished in the whirl of the 1948 war. This report is a journey through time; a visual trek to the origins of the refugee issue. 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 humanist body of work devoted to exile, migrations, and the traversed territories. From vanished Palestinian villages to the precarious refuges of migrants, he photographs less the event than its traces. With Passages, he continues this work along the roads of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those who strive to reach Europe. A precise and silent photography, where the landscape becomes a bearer of memory.
