Publisher/Dunes editions

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French photographer Heliot Verdier's "Reaching for Dawn" is a collection of works by French photographer Elliott Verdier. This project, which took two years to document Liberia after the end of its civil war, quietly examines a society where traces of violence intersect with hope for rebirth. Using long exposures with a large-format camera, Verdier has chosen "slow photography" to engage with people, rather than the immediacy of reportage. His enduring interest in the inheritance of trauma and unearthing memories buried in silence, characterizes his perspective as a lens through which individual portraits overlap with the history of the nation. This work features color portraits of war veterans, including former child soldiers and their surviving relatives, and black-and-white landscapes that harbor local memories, such as abandoned mines and nighttime towns, creating a visual composition in which light and darkness coexist. Historically, Verdier's work is positioned in the lineage of contemporary documentaries, which witness the absence of testimony, and raises a fundamental question: to what extent photography can access the pain of others. This book offers a perspective for "seizing" the post-war dawn while embracing voices that have slipped through the national narrative. This masterpiece swept the 2021 awards, including the Paris-Photo Award. First edition of 750 copies. Signed by the photographer .