Borderline: Paul D’Haese

Borderline is a carefully photographed, deadpan documentation of the coastal strip from Bray-Dunes to Le Havre, France, photographed over the course of four years. Text in English and French.

With Borderline, the Belgian photographer Paul D’Haese explores the coastal strip from Bray-Dunes to Le Havre. His photographs of the chaotic built-up landscape with its blind walls, parapets and fences ironically depict this coastline as a new “Atlantic wall”. In this, they form a masterful visual fable about the desert that can become a country that closes itself off. The images question the forms of a heterogeneous building, the sediment of human activity. In particular it offers a beautiful metaphor for an approach that invites in-depth reading rather than surface contemplation. The project obtained ‘Le Prix de la Ministre de la Culture’ - May 2021 - Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi.

Text in English and French.

• | Author: Paul D’Haese
• | Publisher: Stockmans NV
• | Publication Date: Mar 05, 2025
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9789077207956
• | ISBN-10: 9077207953