honorable mention
Lucas Dragone belgium
Photo © Lucas Dragone
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The Peoples From the Last Caravansary
The name Caravansary is inspire by a theater play i saw called "The Last Caravansary" in 2003. A Journey, an odyssey made from tiny pieces of destiny, small parts of the lives of men and women. Those who are called refugees, illegals, migrants, and who call themselves travellers.
The name Caravansary refers to inns that once served as resting stops for caravans
A caravansary was a roadside inn where travelers (Caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.
I placed a studio light and a fabric background and started taking portraits and video testimonies of the people that wanted to do it. I wanted a moment of dignity and beauty in the middle of a crisis situation. I wanted to forget, for a few minutes, the place we where in and the crisis situation around us. All together with them we shared a simple and out of time moment. We sometime forgot that those peoples just arrived from the most devastated country in the world. It’s so powerful how human have an instinct of survival and the absolute need to share, to be in society. I met amazing peoples. Talented artist, musicien, journalist, calligrapher, dancer! It is a real Caravansary made with the whole world in. Beside the difficult journey to arrive there and beside the difficult conditions there are here right now… hope, dignity and humanity are the main feelings coming out of the moment we share….
Dragone's photographic work often explores themes of identity, culture, and ritual. His lens captures the elegance of movement, the mystery of performance, and the quiet dignity of his subjects. He has traveled extensively, often immersing himself in the lives and traditions of those he photographs. This anthropological curiosity is a hallmark of his style, his work invites the viewer into a world that is at once foreign and familiar, where the boundaries between observer and observed dissolve.
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entry description
The pictures are taken in different centers that provide help to refugees.The name Caravansary is inspire by a theater play i saw called "The Last Caravansary" in 2003. A Journey, an odyssey made from tiny pieces of destiny, small parts of the lives of men and women. Those who are called refugees, illegals, migrants, and who call themselves travellers.
The name Caravansary refers to inns that once served as resting stops for caravans
A caravansary was a roadside inn where travelers (Caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.
I placed a studio light and a fabric background and started taking portraits and video testimonies of the people that wanted to do it. I wanted a moment of dignity and beauty in the middle of a crisis situation. I wanted to forget, for a few minutes, the place we where in and the crisis situation around us. All together with them we shared a simple and out of time moment. We sometime forgot that those peoples just arrived from the most devastated country in the world. It’s so powerful how human have an instinct of survival and the absolute need to share, to be in society. I met amazing peoples. Talented artist, musicien, journalist, calligrapher, dancer! It is a real Caravansary made with the whole world in. Beside the difficult journey to arrive there and beside the difficult conditions there are here right now… hope, dignity and humanity are the main feelings coming out of the moment we share….
about the photographer
Lucas Dragone (b. 1981) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer whose work traverses the boundary between the poetic and the documentary, the intimate and the universal. His journey into the visual arts is deeply rooted in a rich background in performance, theatre, and human connection, an evolution that speaks to a lifelong quest to understand and portray the complexities of the human condition.Dragone's photographic work often explores themes of identity, culture, and ritual. His lens captures the elegance of movement, the mystery of performance, and the quiet dignity of his subjects. He has traveled extensively, often immersing himself in the lives and traditions of those he photographs. This anthropological curiosity is a hallmark of his style, his work invites the viewer into a world that is at once foreign and familiar, where the boundaries between observer and observed dissolve.
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