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Christian Vium

I did not die – I was not living either!
Try to imagine, if you can imagine,
me there, deprived of life and death at once.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XXXIV:25-27

Clandestine is a story about life and death. It is the story of men who risk everything in order to provide a better future for their families.
The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe. It is a photographic account of the long and perilous journey, undertaken by young african men, through the vast expanses of the Sahara, across the hostile waves of the ocean and into a foreign continent, Europe. Clandestine is an intimate investigation of men who must denounce themselves and become nobody in order to become somebody, and how, as the journey unfolds, they become naked lives. In its essence, Clandestine is a project about prolonged human liminality. The immediate drama of the actual crossing is mirrored in a profound psychological and symbolic journey. The crossing is a rite of transition, in which the young migrants become suspended in an existential no-man’s land. Between adolescence and adulthood. Between the familiar and the foreign. Between Africa and Europe. Between life and death. Clandestine investigates how the migrants navigate this marginal ‘space’ and how they cope with fear, loneliness, longing, absence, shame and marginalisation during the journey, and in Europe.

Place: “Technopolis” of Municipality of Athens

Duration: 19/10-04/11/12

Hours: Mo-Fr 17.00-22.00, Sa-Su: 12.00-22.00

Organised by: Royal Danish Embassy in Athens
Hellenic Centre for Photography

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