ASSYRIANS BOOK

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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.}

︎ CONTACT ME

^{Video of the crowdfunding launched in December 2021
with the support of Kickstarter and Polka Magazine.}

^LAUREAT

^{2022 Belgian PhotoBooks which will be shown at the Rencontres d'Arles in France in July 2022.}

^PRIZE
^{2022 Lauréate Belgian Photobooks presentation at the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles FR}

^{PRESS

9 lives magazine article

L’Intervalle blog du critique Fabien Ribery - Le Chant de l’exil par Romane Iskaria}
^{Interview Fédération Assyrienne de France, Assyria TV}
^{KICKSTARTER crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter}
^{POLKA MAGAZINE article}

^{EVENT
TIPI BOOK SHOP : soirée de lancement du livre Assyrians à la librairie TipiBookShop à Bruxelles Belgique le 23 juin 2022}

ROMANE ISKARIA

ASSYRIANS BOOK

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