Jungles
Jean Revillard
Labor et Fides
French
Hardcover
80 pages
278 x 188 mm
2011
ISBN 9782830913545
They fled from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Ghana, and Kurdistan. They’re young, male and many, and still waiting in Calais for their chance to reach the greener grass of the UK. It’s a story that was meant to have come to an end, but in reality was driven to the wilds. Swiss photographer and World Press winner Jean Revillard has made a series of dreamy pictures of their scruffy makeshifts, built in the wooded areas of Calais that the French police call the ‘jungle’, but the human tragedy he interprets is nothing short of a nightmare.
About the Artist
Jean Revillard (22 September 1967 – 3 January 2019) was a Swiss photojournalist and winner of two World Press Photo awards in 2008 and 2009.
About the Publisher
Labor et Fides SA is today the main French-language Protestant publisher. Created in 1924, Labor et Fides offers a catalog inscribed in theological, Protestant, religious, ethical, historical, social and cultural themes. Established in Geneva, it acquired its stature in the 1950s to 1970s thanks to the publication in French of the works of great theologians and thinkers such as Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther and Paul Tillich.
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