Greece | Open See

August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

By Julien DeBock

In 2003, the Hellenic Cultural Heritage invited twelve Magnum photographers to “share their vision on contemporary Greece” to promote the Olympics. In response, American photographer Jim Goldberg’s “vision” centered on the country’s immigrant population, most of whom live in hiding, without papers and without rights.

Open See, currently on view at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris , is part of Goldberg’s larger project “The New Europeans,” which explores and documents the exodus of refugees, immigrants and victims of human traffic.

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