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Publisher Note

Philippe Chancel reveals us the existence of the thousands of workers in United Arab Emirates who toil constantly constructing amazing cities: Dubai, Abu-Dhabi, with his book Workers....

Such city states are fueled by imagination, dreams, luxury commerce, beaches, sumptious museums, malls without end where all brands can be found.... artificial universes where the unreal may have more reality than the real. But this dream has another side, the world of the manual workers who build it. Unregistered and annonimous Filipinos and Chinese cross this stage, and Philippe Chancel catches them as they work. He shows us their lives, labouring under the sun, turbaned with pieces of fabric, wearing hats or scarfs to protect themselves from the heat and dust. We are able to observe up-close these workers who have agreed to do this work despite the difficult working-conditions.

For the special edition, Philippe Chancel choosed 10 different Workers' portraits print in 3 copies each in a large size (60 x 80 cm) on Hahnemühle art paper 308g. Each photography is signed & numbered to the back. One copie of the book "Workers" is given free for each order of a limited photography print.

Photobook

Workers

— Emirates

by Philippe Chancel

Publisher
Release Place Paris, France
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2011
Credits
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 9782915837896
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Lavoro, Migrations, Migrazione, Sfruttamento, Work
Methods Photography
Language French, English
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 22.5 × 30.0 cm
Pages 136