At the Urban Eye, Calais between life and walls – Liberation
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Devoted to documentary photography, the meeting of Corbeil-Essonnes reveals, at the time of its tenth edition, the work of the young Paloma Laudet on the binding repressive arsenal against migrants.
Except to work there, or to reside there naturally, the reasons for going to Corbeil-Essonnes do not abound. However, the Ile-de-France commune legitimately aspires to be talked about for reasons other than the violent chronicle of neighboring cities, or the bitter memory of political excesses (corruption, vote buying, etc.) which, through deposed elected officials, threw the reproach in the territory. Thus, the Urban Eye festival was created, then grew, “in resistance” in the cesspool of “Dassault System”, now dismantled. Now reassured, since close to the new municipality (on the left), the event has however never rectified a roadmap thought around the notion of“commitment, conditioned by the thirst to understand the world”.
destruction of the jungle
Dedicated to documentary photography connected to social issues, the Urban Eye is therefore worth the detour, at the commemorative hour of a tenth harvest which, spread over 12 sites (including the imposing Saint-Jean Commandery, a priory built by the Order of Malta in the 13th Century), includes 13 exhibits. Among the top series, whose works presented have already circulated a lot, we can dwell once again on the extreme dignity with which the American Anne Rearick will intervene (in black and white) the inhabitants of the Cape townships. Or, in the region of…