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Biography

Voix de Monde/Délocalisation (2006-2007)

Year in and year out the worldwide stream of migrants – legal and illegal – becomes greater. In 2006  Anabell Guerrero began her project Voix de Monde/Délocalisation in the French city of Envry. More than fifty nationalities live alongside one another in Envry, an ever-changing combination of faces, cultures and traditions. On his long journey, Guerrero notes, the emigrant often takes along nothing but himself: his own eyes, his own hands, his own skin. Guerrero approaches the individual as a continent in himself – a place with a history. By photographing details of the body and sometimes combining them with geographic allusions, she creates a new geography that opens a door to an inner world. In this way she approaches the issue of immigration not as a sociologist or journalist, but attempts to be ‘an archivist of the unseen’. 

Anabell Guerrero (Venezuela, 1958) lives and works by turns in France and Venezuela. In addition to Voix de Monde, her work includes series about the Caribbean and the refugee centre in Sangatte, near Calais. She received an award for her photography at the third Encounter of Iberoamerican Photography in Caracas, Venezuela.

Website Anabell Guerrero