Bruno Fert (1971) - Jaffa - Cimetière Abdel Nabi - N 32°5’16’’ E 34°46’11’’






Over 35 years' experience; former gallery owner and Museum Folkwang curator.
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Bruno Fert’s 2016 documentary photograph, “Jaffa - Cimetière Abdel Nabi - N 32°5’16’’ E 34°46’11’’”, is a signed digital print measuring 40 × 50 cm.
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Bruno FERT (Born in 1971)
Jaffa - Abdel Nabi Cemetery - N 32°5’16’’ E 34°46’11’’
The Absent, 2016
Fine art print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth paper, title and date inscribed in the margin
32 x 32 cm (40 x 50 cm)
In 1948, the creation of the State of Israel triggered the first Arab-Israeli war and the exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinians to neighboring countries. What remains today of the towns and villages emptied of their inhabitants? To answer this question, I went to Israel to find and photograph the remains of these ghost towns, lost in the whirlwind of the 1948 war. This project is a journey through time, a visual trek to the origins of the refugee question. These images bear witness to a pivotal moment in the region’s history, whose consequences are at the heart of current events today.
Bruno Fert — Documentary Photographer
Bruno Fert has developed a profoundly humanist body of work devoted to exile, migration and the places people pass through. From vanished Palestinian villages to migrants’ makeshift shelters, he photographs not so much the events as their traces. With Passages, he continues this work along the routes of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those trying to reach Europe. His precise, quiet photography turns the landscape into a bearer of memory.
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Bruno FERT (Born in 1971)
Jaffa - Abdel Nabi Cemetery - N 32°5’16’’ E 34°46’11’’
The Absent, 2016
Fine art print on Hahnemühle Ultrasmooth paper, title and date inscribed in the margin
32 x 32 cm (40 x 50 cm)
In 1948, the creation of the State of Israel triggered the first Arab-Israeli war and the exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinians to neighboring countries. What remains today of the towns and villages emptied of their inhabitants? To answer this question, I went to Israel to find and photograph the remains of these ghost towns, lost in the whirlwind of the 1948 war. This project is a journey through time, a visual trek to the origins of the refugee question. These images bear witness to a pivotal moment in the region’s history, whose consequences are at the heart of current events today.
Bruno Fert — Documentary Photographer
Bruno Fert has developed a profoundly humanist body of work devoted to exile, migration and the places people pass through. From vanished Palestinian villages to migrants’ makeshift shelters, he photographs not so much the events as their traces. With Passages, he continues this work along the routes of exile, revealing in the landscapes the marks left by those trying to reach Europe. His precise, quiet photography turns the landscape into a bearer of memory.
