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Wednesday, November 22, 2021. Twenty-seven people died when a boat capsized off the coast of Calais. They were between the ages of 7 and 46 and came from Iraq, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Somalia, and Afghanistan. They were attempting to cross the English Channel to reach England. Since that day, approximately 150,000 others have reached the English coast. An estimated 115 have died or are missing.
The presence of these men and women desperately seeking to cross has profoundly transformed the coastline and its landscape in recent years, particularly since the Le Touquet agreements were signed in 2003.
This work is a wandering along the coastline, an attempt to paint a portrait of what this territory is—an open-air waiting room for a quasi-mythological place.
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