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Patrick Zachmann
Patrick Zachmann
March 16, 2015
Oussama, a candidate for illegal immigration, Zarzis, Tunisia 2011
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
From February 14 to May 17, 2015, the Musée Nicéphore Niépce is presenting the exhibition Mare, Mater, with works by Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann. In this series, Zachmann places the lives of refugees in relationship to his own family story.
At the centre of his work are people who have crossed the Mediterranean in search of a better life – and the mothers who stayed behind in North Africa. At the same time, the series took Zachmann in search of his mother's Jewish/Algerian roots: she too had undertaken the same Mediterranean crossing years earlier.
The photographer once said that he was using photography to try and create the family album he himself had never possessed.
Further information about the exhibition at: Musée Nicéphore Niépce
At the centre of his work are people who have crossed the Mediterranean in search of a better life – and the mothers who stayed behind in North Africa. At the same time, the series took Zachmann in search of his mother's Jewish/Algerian roots: she too had undertaken the same Mediterranean crossing years earlier.
The photographer once said that he was using photography to try and create the family album he himself had never possessed.
Further information about the exhibition at: Musée Nicéphore Niépce
Oussama, a candidate for illegal immigration, Zarzis, Tunisia 2011
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
Badra Bouzidi, Noureddine’s mother, Oran, Algeria 2011
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
Family which has lost their son, as the boat he embarqued on February 2011, Zarzis, Tunisia 2011
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
Selfportrait with my mother, Paris 1983
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos