Asphodel Songs

Asphodel Songs

Category : Photography Photographs : Mathias Benguigui Text : Agathe Kalfas 80 photographs Size : 19 x 25 cm/ Hardback 160 pages French & Greek Le Bec en l'air ISBN : 9782367441573 / 36 € Release date : Aug 19, 21 Rights available

To address the contemporary migration crisis, photographer Mathias Benguigui chose the path of history, on the island of Lesbos, where two tales of migration come together: the current one, at the forefront of everyone's mind, and the one that saw the arrival on the island of 45,000 Greek Orthodox Christians fleeing Turkey in 1922. By breaking away from current events, the photographer opens up a poetic space, where landscapes and portraits intermingle, in dialogue with the texts of Agathe Kalfas and the 20th century Greek poets.

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