Photography
Caroline Bach / Dominique Baqué
Factory closures and mass layoffs have become the news, representing the crisis. Workers are fighting back, trying to defend jobs they know are often irreplaceable, their struggle crystallizing the divide between the real economy and the speculative economy.
In this photographic series, Caroline Bach returned to the sites where conflicts had occurred, sometimes a year later, recording the traces left by the confrontations, as a final tribute to these collective struggles. Her photographs
reinvent the landscape genre: the locations are chosen for the memory they continue to hold, traces sometimes barely legible left after periods of social conflict: the negative image of a bygone action that eludes journalistic observation.
Dominique Baqué accompanies the images with an openly politically engaged text, while also situating the photographs within a broader reflection on the representation of work.
Dites-nous comment survivre à notre condition, 18 x 29 cm, 88 pages, 55 four-color reproductions, full-paper binding, Swiss binding Graphic design: L’atelier d’édition
