Cédric Calandraud
From 2019 to 2024, Cédric Calandraud returned to the lands of his childhood and adolescence to photograph the young people who live in the villages of eastern and northern Charente. Through an immersive investigation, he documented this period, at the end of adolescence, when some leave to study in the cities without knowing if they will ever return and when others stay to train in the region hoping to quickly integrate into working life. These young people are called Anthony, Océane, Teddy, and are between 15 and 25 years old. The photographer met them in schools, community centers, at their workplace or during their free time when they find themselves “at each other’s houses”, at the motocross track or on the banks of the river. For him, working with them was an opportunity to rediscover this territory he left at the age of 18, but also its history and origins, to connect them to the present and to his practice. Photograph after photograph, he reconnected with this place that he still calls home.
This book is accompanied by a text retracing these five years of investigation, an interview with sociologists Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy and Benoît Coquard and a political perspective of this work against the invisibility of rural youth by Félix Assouly and Salomé Berlioux.
Le reste du monde n’existe pas, 24.5 x 31 cm, 150 pages, approximately 70 reproductions, two-color printing, hardcover. Text in French.
Design: Joanna Starck
ISBN: 978-2-84314-119-5
