The editorial favorites

The Arles Meetings. in addition to being the meeting of photographic exhibitions of the year, is also a deployment of photo books of all kinds. For example, Between Arles Book Fair which established itself at the ENSP. However, at the Saint-Charles college, and Mirage, installed between the Palais bookstore and the rue de Vernon, the publishing houses presented works with poignant, funny or strange visual stories. Consequently, The editorial staff of Fisheye has selected a few just for you.

Father : Diana Markosian – Editorial favorites

Red, with delicate velvet, encrusted with gold letters and a silver silhouette. Under this intriguing coverage is revealed. over the pages, the singular history of Diana Markosian, whose homonymous exhibition is currently deployed to the Monoprix Espace for the Arles meetings. “Throughout my life. my father represented only a silhouette in the family album”writes the artist who, in this editorial favorites limited edition setting, traces the years of absence and the reunion with his father in Armenia after eighteen years of separation. The latter. discovering the steep flight of his ex-wife with his two children in 1996, spent his life in search of his daughter and son, sending announcements in the press or contacting embassies and presidential cabinets. For ten years. Diana Markosian reconstructs the relationship with her father – a perfect unknown -, during many visits to Armenia. These intimate exchanges are recorded in this work with a lot of poetry. lead the readers to question the family bond. In each of the books is also an empty envelope which invites those who cross this collection on the way to share their own stories of losses. recovery.

Marie Baranger