Photo op 1 | Photo op 2 | At the Summit, 2013

Inkjet print on paper.

September 2013, G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg, while the heads of state, ministers and heads of the banks from the most powerful countries in the world come together “to foster international cooperation”, the massacres continued in Syria, resulting in the displacement of millions of civilians to already overrun refugee camps. Among them, more than one million children. This number is in addition to the 45 million refugees, victims of wars often sparked without their knowledge and ignored by those responsible for them. After each summit, a family portrait immortalizes the moment.

In the Photo op series, these images become ghostly. They appear to be animated by the presence of a form floating in the space. While the official photograph begins to break down, faces appear. The anonymity of the people in the background is replaced by the gaze of the children, from portraits taken in the refugee camps still set up around the world.