After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
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Laura Lafon
photographer
Born in 1989. A graduate of Sciences Po Toulouse and ESA 75 in Brussels, Laura Lafon develops works ranging from documentary to fiction, always in the form of photography books. Her areas of research are the representation of self, the other, and the upheavals caused by particular encounters with cultures. Her work has been exhibited in Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Tourcoing, Montpellier, Palermo. She co-founded Concept Editing Design, a book design studio, and is an iconographer for the press.
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