synopsis
In Dust, photographer Patrick Wack, a member of the band Inland, explores the Chinese province of Xinjiang – the land of the Uyghurs and their repression. The result of four years of work, the book mixes images and the words of experts in an attempt to bring out a disaster that remains invisible.
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technical information
publisher : André Frère Editions
2021
176 pages
dimensions : 25 x 32 cm
languages : french / english
2021
176 pages
dimensions : 25 x 32 cm
languages : french / english
about Patrick Wack
French photographer Patrick Wack (b. 1979) grew up in the suburbs of Paris. After a career in sports and studies in economics and foreign languages in Paris, the US and Sweden, he left a job in Berlin to start again as a photographer in China. Fully self-taught, he was based in Shanghai from 2006 to 2017 where he worked freelance for international publications and commercial clients. He also focuses on long-term projects mixing the traditional documentary approach with a more subjective and contemplative storytelling. His work has addressed topics such as the repression of minorities, urban mutations, war-time Russia, the emergence of China and post-conflict reconstruction. His stories have been published in Time magazine, Geo France, M le Monde, The Sunday Times, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal and Der Spiegel among many others. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in the US, France, China, Germany, and Singapore. Among other awards, he was a PDN photo annual winner and French Bourse du Talent laureate in 2018, has received 1st prize at the KL Photo Awards and was a laureate of the Albert-Kahn grant in 2019 and of the CNAP grant for documentary photography in 2020. His first monograph DUST was released early October 2021 with André Frère Editions and was shortlisted the following year for the Paris Photo / Aperture Photobook award. He is also the cofounder of the Inland photo cooperative gathering 14 international documentary photographers and a 2022 National Geographic Explorer. He is currently based in Paris.
source : Patrick Wack website
book in my collection
publisher : André Frère Editions
2021
signed
2021
signed