In the summer 2022, Raymond Meeks followed refugees crossing rivers, forests and wastelands from southern Spain to the northern French coast on the outskirts of Calais.
Published by MACK, The Inhabitants shows not the men but the obstacles they encounter on their way, the traces left by their passage, the ruins of their ephemeral camps and the nature that sheltered them. Meeks thus achieves a tour de force: to evoke, with such delicacy, a subject as important and contemporary as migration.
Accompanied by George Weld’s sensory poetry, The Inhabitants is haunted by the fugitive presence of these clandestine passengers, and is a moving metaphor for the displacement of those deprived of the very possibility of inhabiting.
Embossed hardcover with slipcase
21.5 x 30cm
Text in english
