Wiser, Slab City, USA, 2023 © Laura Henno, Courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris-Bruxelles
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Laura Henno. Outremonde
01/06/2024 - 29/09/2024
Musée de la Photographie
Place des Essarts
11, avenue Paul Pastur
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
In 2017, French photographer Laura Henno embarked on a long-term photographic project in the Slab City camp. For several weeks each year, she takes up residence in a caravan in this town lost in the heart of the Californian desert.
The last free territory in the United States, this off-the-grid camp is home to a community of marginalised people, people who want to live outside the American system or who have been excluded from it. Not on any map, Slab City exists without existing. The heat is intense and water is scarce while fighter planes and rocket fire constantly shatter the silence that is supposed to reign in the desert. Tackling her subject with respect and humanity, Laura Henno has created a fascinating panorama of this no-man’s-land. By taking a particular interest in the conditions in which the families that are based here live and survive, she cast a committed woman’s eye on the world, establishing an intimate relationship with those she photographs in the very special light of the American West.
01/06/2024 - 29/09/2024
Musée de la Photographie
Place des Essarts
11, avenue Paul Pastur
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
In 2017, French photographer Laura Henno embarked on a long-term photographic project in the Slab City camp. For several weeks each year, she takes up residence in a caravan in this town lost in the heart of the Californian desert.
The last free territory in the United States, this off-the-grid camp is home to a community of marginalised people, people who want to live outside the American system or who have been excluded from it. Not on any map, Slab City exists without existing. The heat is intense and water is scarce while fighter planes and rocket fire constantly shatter the silence that is supposed to reign in the desert. Tackling her subject with respect and humanity, Laura Henno has created a fascinating panorama of this no-man’s-land. By taking a particular interest in the conditions in which the families that are based here live and survive, she cast a committed woman’s eye on the world, establishing an intimate relationship with those she photographs in the very special light of the American West.