Migrants/Refugees - Isle of Dreams


  • Photographer
    TANGI Myriam
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016
  • Technical Info
    Film black and white

Paris 2016. As the social services’s offices for refugees and asylum seekers are located at 127 Boulevard de La Villette, more than 3800 migrants (Afghans, Sudanese, Erythreans) settled along the aerial subway, at the St Martin Canal - where I live. Because this settlement is located by my appartment, these pictures have only been taken during my daily commute, on my way to work or shopping. I didn’t seek to make such photographs, I did not want to be on attitude of photo documentary. How to show our two realities ? Taken in september : Day after day, their presence was superimposed, one image on another : the one of the urban detritus and the one of the victims of the attacks, particularly the white cloth which is also their blanket. The name of some of their camping tents was « Ile of Dreams ».

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