Samuel Gratacap - Empire, Choucha camp (Tunisia), 2012-2014

Inkjet print, Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Image: 28 x 35,5 cm (paper: 30 x 37,5 cm)
Signed and numbered on a label
Edition of 10 + 2 AP

About the work
Samuel Gratacap's photographic series explores the challenging journeys of Mediterranean migrants over nearly a decade. His lens captures key transition points including Lampedusa and a Marseille detention center. The contrast between his refined visual style and the difficult subject matter is striking. Gratacap explores themes of displacement, identity, and belonging, questioning how individuals navigate the complex emotional territory between abandoning home and facing rejection elsewhere. His work examines how the human body physically manifests these experiences of rootlessness and exclusion.

About the photographer
Samuel Gratacap (1982) was born in France where he studied art at the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Marseille. He has been researching the geopolitical crises around the Mediterranean sea since 2007. In 2013, he won the SFR-LE BAL Prize for young photographic creation with his project in Tunisia in the Choucha refugee camp. In 2018 Gratacap exhibited his work at Foam with the exhibition Les Invisibles.

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