Gilles Favier - Belfast

200 pages
Text by Olivier Margot
Photographs by Gilles Favier
26.6 x 20 x 2.2 cm
Language: French, with an English text insert laid-in
Hardback
Publisher: Maison CF
2018

« 1981. I have a subscription to Reporter-Objectif, a monthly photography magazine. They explain how to become a war correspondent along with tons of very useful practical advices such as how to choose the right bag, the right camera, the right shoes… The easiest conflict according to them, and the most affordable for beginners like me, is Northern Ireland. You have to take a bus at the Madeleine around 10 pm, then take the boat in Calais in the middle of the night, a train to London where you switch train station and train to Stranraër north of Liverpool, and finally a ferry to Larne before a last bus to Belfast. »

So starts the fine relationship between a photographer and a population, that year after year will experience The Troubles, started in the late 1960’s. Forty years of photography spin the backstory as told by the photographer, starting with Barry Sands’ death and ending at the eve of the Brexit.