Three years after OPP, Federico Hurth returns to the Parisian banlieues to photograph everyday life in the neighbourhood. What makes the images raw is how ordinary the scene feels. The young people hold guns with an almost playful ease, as though picking one up were an everyday gesture. A gun can give them a sense of safety. It can earn them respect. In these photographs, what might shock someone from outside the neighbourhood seems to be part of daily life.
‘Survive or find a way out’ is the phrase that runs through this second chapter. In a neighbourhood where there seem to be few ways to make it, survival means learning to get by from one day to the next. Finding a way out means having a chance to live differently. Hurth sees the distance between the two in how easily a young person can pick up a gun to feel safer today, even as the choices open to them tomorrow may grow fewer.
“Survivre ou s’en sortir”
OPP PT2
Zine Launch
Thursday, November 19
Photography by Federico Hurth
Book design by Giga Design Studio
From 7PM
SECTION80 BAR
Via Farini, 44
Milan