Contribution short abstract:

This project aims to co-create photographs of places and migrants posing, but moving, on it. A blur symbolizing and denouncing their existence in this space, in order to reverse globalized power relations by highlighting their "traces" bringing to light stories of lives and migratory journeys.

Contribution long abstract:

In “jungles” of Calais landscapes, local and migratory life stories intersect in a constant movement, which have already been photographed from all angles, especially from 2002 to 2016, during the mediatized period. This collaborative anthropo-photographic project, called "migrant lifelines", offers a tool to conduct research with (and not on) migrants, about their perception of, and place in the landscapes. These persons are constantly on the move, traveling in the streets, on trains, with a plastic bag in hand, as if about to leave, made invisible by anti-migrant policies. This project aims to co-create a series of photographs of selected places and construct a photography with the migrant posing, but moving, on it. A blur symbolizing and denouncing their existence in this space, in order to reverse globalized power relations by highlighting their "traces" bringing to light stories of lives and migratory journeys.

Following 15 persons, each one day, in their lives and places will also allow to collect information on their lives and write their story alongside of the collaborative exhibition. The project, taking place from January to December 2025, can therefore be presented halfway through and above all discussed and questioned during the conference, in order to work on methodological, epistemological and heuristic issues. How the migrants will react to, and welcome this project? Will they make it their own? How to make a research collaborative when it is already thought and constructed by the researcher on her own?