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Europe's new eastern borders stretch from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea - 1,600 heavily guarded kilometers between former "fraternal countries." The photographers Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya spent one and a half months on the road; one of them traveled down from the North and the other up from the South in an effort to document the places and landscapes that mark the end of the Western world. On their journey, they photographed the landscape as well as the border posts with their soldiers and their refugees seized at the frontier, and documented a reality defined in far-away Strasbourg, Brussels, and elsewhere. Explanatory maps and satellite images are juxtaposed with the striking photographs. Articles by political scientists, security experts, sociologists, human rights specialists, and philosophers, as well as literary texts round out this photographic survey of the EU's Eastern European external borders.
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Mit Beiträgen u.a. von John Donaldson, Geograf; Durham University, Gianni Haver, Politologe und Soziologe; Jon Lévy, Fotograf, Foto8 Magazine; Martino Pesaresi, Stadt- und Regionalplaner, Europäische Kommission: Geo-Spatial Information Analysis for Global Security and Stability,Italien; Laura Serani, Kuratorin; Lust, Design Studio, Niederlande; Dr Ian Russell, University College Dublin.- With contributions by e.g.:John Donaldson, Geographer, Durham University; Gianni Haver, sociologist; Jon Lévy, Photographer and Publisher of Foto8 Magazine, Martino Pesaresi, Town and regional planer, europeen commission: Geo-Spatial Information Analysis for Global Security and Stability; Laura Serani, Art curator; Lust, graphic and design studio; Dr Ian Russell, University College Dublin.
Info autore
Yann Mingard, photographer, studied at the Visual Arts Professional School, Geneva and the School of Photography in Vevey, Switzerland. Several exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Italy, UK, USA. Published in international magazines. 2003: Prix FNAC européen de la photographie, France. 2005 Prix Nicolas Bouvier, Switzerland
Alban Kakulya, photographer, studied at the School of Photography in Vevey, Switzerland, several exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Italy, UK, USA. Published in international magazines. 2003: Prix FNAC européen de la photographie, France. Fulbright Grant. 2007: Prix Nicolas Bouvier, Switzerland
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Europe’s new eastern borders stretch from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea – 1,600 heavily guarded kilometers between former "fraternal countries." The photographers Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya spent one and a half months on the road; one of them traveled down from the North and the other up from the South in an effort to document the places and landscapes that mark the end of the Western world. On their journey, they photographed the landscape as well as the border posts with their soldiers and their refugees seized at the frontier, and documented a reality defined in far-away Strasbourg, Brussels, and elsewhere. Explanatory maps and satellite images are juxtaposed with the striking photographs. Articles by political scientists, security experts, sociologists, human rights specialists, and philosophers, as well as literary texts round out this photographic survey of the EU’s Eastern European external borders.
