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Canjuers (2014-2015)

Mar 30, 2017 - Vivien Ayroles

Canjuers is a transitional subalpine territory of the South of France. Since 1974, it is one of the largest army training camps in Western Europe. Roads, tracks, administrative and residential buildings, permanent installations affect this forbidden landscape, inaccessible and inhospitable. I move toward Canjuers by its limits, and gaze at it facing the screen of the vegetation and of the relief at the edge of this still landscape. I take photographs of invisible walls, following the limits of a hidden theatre where violence lies low in a parody of war.

 

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Also on photography and the military, check these books:

Lisa Barnard “Hyenas of the Battlefield Machines in the Garden”

Guillaume Greff “Dead Cities”