Charlotte Perriand. Texts by Damarice Amao and

12.5 × 19 cm 144 pages 68 black and white photographs softback photo poche n° 169 june 2022 retail price: 13.90 €

Klavdij Sluban has published a number of works, including Entre parenthèses, in the “Photo Poche Société” series (Actes Sud, 2005), Transverses (Maison européenne de la photographie, 2002), Balkans-Transit with François Maspero (Seuil, 1997) and Transsibériades/ East to East with Erri de Luca (Actes Sud, 2009). In 2013, the Niépce Museum devoted a retrospective to his works. Željko Kozinc is a Slovenian poet, playwright and a screenplaywriter. Christine DeloryMomberger is a lecturer in education sciences at Université Paris-13 Sorbonne Paris Cité. A specialist in biographical research, she is the author of the biography at the end of the work.

Introduction by Željko Kozinc Biography by Christine Delory-Momberger

Abounding in literary references, the photography of Klavdij Sluban lies outside the instant and is remarkable for the distance it creates with its subject. The event is a pretext: it translates a moment which reflects both the reality encountered by the author and his own feelings. With the barest of equipment, Klavdij Sluban has traveled the world in search of the dalni vostok, the “Slav’s own far-east”. Born in Paris in 1963, and raised in Slovenia by his aunt, he moved to Paris with his parents at the age of 7. This double exile has founded his perception of the world. Traveling forever eastwards to the Balkans, ex-Yugoslavia, the Black Sea, the former ussr, China, Japan, and as far as the Caribbean, Central America and Antarctica, his work is composed of photographic cycles rather than series, because he was photographing over a long period of time, constantly returning to the same places. Since 1995, Klavdij Sluban has been photographing teenagers in prison, with whom he has shared his passion through

To accompany the publication of the work, an exhibition is organized 4 July-25 September in Croisière during the Rencontres d’Arles 2022. event

initiation workshops. The long-term project began in France at the Fleury-Mérogis youth offenders’ center and he pursued the initiative in Eastern European countries, then in Central America among maras gangs. Today, he has extended his work to South America, Brazil and Peru. Confined spaces are a recurrent theme in the work of Klavdij Sluban. As though in search of a placeless elsewheres, his lens captures deserted, inhabitable spaces. His perspective is always imbued with deliberate artistic ethics, without compassion or complacency. The power of his images stems from their sense of habitation.