Legal or illegal?
With the new immigration wave into the USA and the rest of the world, I felt the need to create these grids made up of anonymous portraits of immigrants who have settled in New York City.
The close-up composition and the use of flash evoke mugshot pictures, showing no information, the subjects perform a contemporary vision of human immigration across the world.
In that doubtful frame of mind, the viewer is confronted with her unconscious bias and the notion of profiling.
The repetition recalls a Human pattern of migration that started 300 000 years ago, and the diversity of faces shows the beauty and strength of the human family.
2018-2019