Working Men Have No Country
Krasimira Butseva, Guillaume Chauvin, Ziad Naitaddi, Sofia Yala Rodrigues
ESSARTER Éditions
French, English
Translation is by Robin Wilkinson.
Softcover
160 pages
180 x 265 mm
2022
ISBN 9782956188469
This book is an essay of image and texts bringing together the work and researches of four artists: Krasimira Butseva (Bulgaria – United Kingdom), Guillaume Chauvin (France), Ziad Naitaddi (Morocco) et Sofia Yala Rodrigues (Portugal – Angola – Royaume Uni).
This book is a broad fresco made up of singular adventures and lives, from the October Revolution to the fall of the USSR and decolonisation. By re-drawing geographical boundaries outside the official narratives of the four areas of migration, we have tried to examine education, propaganda and racism in the political contexts of successive migrations, leading to the postsocialist and postcolonialist movements. The colonial symbolism which haunts the world today is revealed for what it is in our readings of the real and the virtual.
About the Artists
Krasimira Butseva is Bulgarian-born visual artist and educator based in London, UK. She holds MA and BA degrees in Photography from the University of Portsmouth. In addition to being a visual artist, she is also an associate lecturer at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is also one of the co-founders of Revolv Collective – an organisation exploring alternative methods for teaching and creating photography and the co-editor of eep magazine – publication focusing on contemporary photography from Eastern Europe.
krasimirabutseva.co.uk
(source: https://wammuseum.org/artist/krasimira-butseva/)
Born in 1987, Guillaume Chauvin joined the HANS LUCAS studio in 2015. Based in Strasbourg (FRA) and Ekaterinburg (RU), he has become accustomed to off-the-beaten-path experiences and regularly questions the subjectivity of images . Open to alternative zones and characters, he publishes his photographs, poems, manifestos or war stories in the press and collaborates with multiple sponsors. He also develops work as a writer ( Éditions Allia ) and independent publisher ( Les Éditions M’habitent ). His work has been awarded in France and abroad.
guillaumechauvin.fr
(source: http://www.guillaumechauvin.fr/)
Born in 1995 in Rabat, Ziad Naitaddi is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Salé, Morocco. His affection for the visual arts first developed through the cinema, through Fouad, a seller of pirated DVDs from the medina of Rabat, who introduced him to a wide range of films and directors. Quickly, he became interested in the hybridity of the photographic medium which offered him a bias of choice to explore his favorite subjects, in an approach halfway between documentary and fiction. He has been photographing since 2015, mainly in black and white, and explores the experimental possibilities of the medium.
ziadnaitaddi.com
(source: https://www.ziadnaitaddi.com/en/biographie)
Sofia Yala, born in Lisbon in 1994, is an Angolan/Portuguese photographer. She has a BA in African Studies and an MA in Anthropology & Visual Cultures. In 2021, she obtained an MA in Arts: Film & Photography in the UK.
sofiayala.art
(source: https://www.sofiayala.art/about)
About the Publisher
ESSARTER Éditions is an association specialised in photo-documentary books. Its creation was born from the meeting between Mathilde Vaveau, photographer, and Lou Reichling, graphic-designer. Paul de Lanzac, photographer, joined them a few months later. Based on their common interests – books, documentary photography and literature – and their complementary skills, their main objective is to create books where texts and images meet and sometimes confront each other.
essartereditions.com
(source: https://essartereditions.com/en/about/)
