Musée Magazine Issue No. 16 - Chaos | Page 26

GIDEON: Yes. In fact, I’m in the middle right now for response to the migrant crisis in Europe and photography the first time — I haven’t really told anyone about it — has failed on many levels. But, I was part of an attempt at a but I’m in the middle of making some kind of physical collaborative project working with migrants and wanting to non-photographic objects. I had an experience recently photograph their own lives, and for a whole set of reasons working in the Jungle Camp, do you know what that is? that project was pretty unsuccessful. In a moment of desperation, I felt a need to make anti-photographic material and ANDREA: No. began collecting a variety of objects from toothbrushes to shotgun cases to hygienic objects. I’m working at the moment GIDEON: It’s a camp in Calais in France. It’s occupied by to create some photographic still lives, but I’m also making 6,000-9,000 migrants from all over the world who are trying some physical installations from them. That’s quite a big to illegally cross to the UK. In many ways I feel a particular change for me but there’s a continuity in the work between Gideon Mendel, Jameela Khan, Bemina, Srinagar, Kashmir, India, October 2014. 24