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FABLES OF FAUBUS - Paul Reas
Culture · Friday, October 30 · 14:00 · Marseille
74 Rue de la joliette, 13002 Marseille, France
Paul Reas is one of the photographers who revealed the working class and the industrial decline of the United Kingdom. Fables of Faubus addresses the work of this British documentary photographer spanning thirty years (1982-2012). The exhibition is composed of six chapters: Industry, Penrhys Estate, Valleys, I Can Help, Flogging a Dead Horse and From a Distance. His photography, far from being purely documentary, is a political art: a gaze without illusion, but not without hope, on the narratives that society builds to forget those it leaves behind. These different series…
