Belfast

Title: Belfast

Photographer(s): Gilles Favier

Writer(s): Gilles Favier, Olivier Margot

Designer(s): Nelly Riedel

Publisher(s): Editions de la Férronière, Paris, France

Year: 2018

Print run:

Language(s): English, French

Pages: 200

Size: 20 x 26,5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Edition:

Print: EBS, San Giovanni Lupatoto,VR, Italy

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: North Ireland,1981-2017

ISBN: 9791096575077

"1981: I subscribed to Reporter-Objectif, a monthly photography magazine. It explained how to become a war correspondent, along with a lot of very useful practical advice like: choose the right bag, the right camera, the right shoes... The most accessible conflict, according to them, the cheapest for apprentice photographers like me, was Northern Ireland. You had to take the bus from La Madeleine in the evening around 10pm, then a boat from Calais in the middle of the night, a train to London where you changed stations for another train to Stranraer, north of Liverpool, and finally the ferry to Larne before a final bus to Belfast."

So begins the tenuous story between a photographer and a people, who over the years will experience the sclerosis of the Northern Irish conflict that began in the late 1960s. Forty years of photographs weave here the backdrop to the story the photographer tells, beginning with the death of Bobby Sands and ending on the eve of Brexit; black and white and colour photos.