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ROMANE ISKARIA


Photographer - Visual Artist


ASSYRIANS BOOK



First edition
300 copies
Format 28,5 x 21,5 cm
130 pages
Auto publishing
English - French
Hardcover book
Design and conception Camille Carbonaro, MACARONI BOOK
Launch June 2022.


Assyrians recounts a photographic survey conducted over two years with the Assyrian community by Romane Iskaria. This book offers the reader a journey through the Assyrian community and its history, alternating between photographs, archival images and a collection of intimate objects, punctuated by testimonies Through a documentary and fictional approach Assyrians sheds light on this disappeared territory and its community. 

Romane collected testimonies from members of the Assyrian community between Belgium and France, complementing the stories of her own grandfather and the notebooks of her great-grandfather who arrived in France from Iran. The photographer conducted an investigation by gathering the stories of this diaspora composed of different generations. Objects transported during exile, family photos, traditional outfits for festivals, figurines of protective figures from ancient Mesopotamia, landscapes, and maps appear. By blending past and present, Romane photographs by intuition and also uses fiction to evoke this quest for origins present in each of us. A project to keep a memory, a trace. To portray a scattered people trying to preserve their connections despite the distance.

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