Francois Pedneault (Austria)
“Le Château” 2007.

Ndjeshmerite dhe vuajtejet njerezore veshtire se mund te perkthehen ne grafike dhe numra Megjithete sa here qe flitet per kete hyjne ne loje statistikat,numrat ,demografia etj.. pas ketyre perkufizime shterpe fshihen gjithmone vuajtejet, fyerjet edhe mungesa e ndjeshmerise.
Privilegji qe ka fotografia per te kapur momente te realitetit, ashtu si ai eshte, pa u manipuluar nga mendja njerezore, eshte nje potencial qe i jep mundesi fytyres njerezore te shperfaqet me te gjithe sfidat qe mbart. Ndodh shpesh qe imazhet te prodhohen per te mbuluar te verteten dhe vishen me sensibilitete te rreme, per te mbuluar banalitetin dhe ndihmuar mass median t’i perdore ato si ngjarje.
“Le Château”eshte ndertuar mbi kete ide. Ajo tregon mbi temen e nxehte te emigrimit duke prezantuar ashtu siç eshte anen me banale te tij. Shume qellime politike arrihen duke de-humanizuar statusin e ketyre njerezve, ne me te miren e hereve si te mjere dhe ne me te keqen e hereve si kriminele.
Njerzit e fotografuar per kete projekt jane duke pritur nje leje qendrimi, ne rradhe, te vetem duke pritur te sherbehen nga burrokracite pa fund. Te fotografuar si njerez ne te verteten e tyre, ata tregoje se jane punetore, nena, njerez te zakonshem pertej te etiketuarit refugjate.

Human distress can hardly be translated into graphics or numbers. When themes involving human suffering are talked about, they are likely to be depicted by the means of statistics (unemployment rate, number of casualty, demography, etc.) Thousands of stories, struggles or injustices are dissolved into a row of sterile numbers.

Photography can be a privileged medium to transmit fragments of reality as it is, that is to say, before being processed or manipulated by a human mind. Indeed, photography has a great potential to give a human face to challenging topics. However, very often, images produced to cover actuality are tainted with sensationalism. The wide range of impressions occurring in banality is likely to be ignored by the mass media in profit of the “event”.

The work “Le Château” has been done in this state of mind. It deals with the burning theme of actuality that is “immigration” by presenting, however, its banal side. Indeed, many political actors reach their goal by depicting a dehumanizing portrait of the migrants by presenting them, at the best, as a nuisance, and at the worse, as mere criminals.

Nevertheless, the photographs of the work depict individuals stacked in queue in order to get a residence permit. The persons are shown all alone with their humility, condemned to wait in a burocratic nightmare. Those unspectacular scenes shows mothers, workers or refugees, confronted to realities that are far beyond their control, in their full humanity.