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Les frontières de nos vies | Valerio VINCENZO | TEDxISTEC


good evening good evening I am very very
admiring the testimony of geraldine I
think it’s really extraordinary
to get naked in front of you like that
and we really miss it how we
can cross borders this is it I
will talk to you about borders but
it’s more of a different kind of
borders I arrived in France
the first time in January 1995
I arrived with an Erasmus exchange
like as a student I had pretty much
near your age and I decided to stay
to do an internship in January 1995 in
Italian who wanted to stay in France
to do an internship needed that
a residence permit did get these
residence permit
it was an obstacle course I
remember several appointments at the
prefecture
it was always missing a paper on me
always asked for new papers
how and not asked before a
Once I was summoned to the prefecture
only for my pairs signed a blue
a document that I had finished a black
January 1995
in March 1995 the Schengen Agreement
come all this is huge mountain
Administrative background like snow in the sun
in fact all this was completely
useless for the French administration
I was no longer a stranger
I was no longer in Italian migrant gt1
European resort ten years later
in fact at the age of 30 I said I
decided to leave my work of
business strategy consultant and
I decide to make my passion for the
photography
my job maybe it could be the
theme of another time another time
but let’s stay on one on room so I
am a documentary photographer and I
decides to document our company’s
our world
I think about this experience and I say it
have to do something in fact
we have to talk about schengen agreements
freedom of movement in europe
it’s amazing what happens to us
it’s unique in the history of europe
and stumbles upon this harry photograph
cartier bresson the customs post of
Bayonne on the border between France
and belgium
these customs posts is talking about my
experience actually because at the time
there were still customs officers when I
arrived in France the first time
in 2007
I have a bit of a pilgrimage to the
looking for these positions and one I the
found completely abandoned the
peeling paint I say to myself and a
thing I need to do something
thing
at first i think i’m going to make a topic
on all abandoned customs posts
in europe and i start with a first
journey along the border of France
this is the first customs post that I
found imposed customs reconverted into
chocolate shop
I tell myself it’s awfully series is going
to be extraordinary I would have and the most
beautiful customs posts in the world did
these photos is the only one maybe
customs posts because all
others were abandoned in fact
completely dilapidated in my sad in
actually he was talking about the Europe of
passed me what interested me actually
it was talking about the present and so I
started to interest me in the line of
border I decided in each of
my images
there will be two countries and so the line of
border as here between the border to
the border between France and the
Swiss
all that remains of the border in
this photo cc point of legs on the
bitumen
sometimes the border we do not see it
like here between france and germany
I am on the castle of fleckenstein
and the border a little lost in the
wood but then you will ask me
but why infected you are interested in
the boundary what motivates you to
work on that too the results
in google pictures from a search of
word borders today when you type
the word borders on the internet
here is what we see a succession
infinite walls of barbed wire posts
customs of migrants is what this
representation is true to reality
the French geographer Michel Foucher has
calculated that in the world only 6% of
boundaries are barriers
94% defended both world
ce2 classes passing it borders
definition is a place of passage
but then I thought to myself
looks like their cross in fact it’s 94%
that’s what led me to this
ten-year lair to explore that
I wanted to see an image that is
that it’s a border actually these
traveling is an extraordinary journey
it led me to see the borders by
example the oldest vampires
from Europe
and if we are between Portugal and
Spain its borders is almost
unchanged since the thirteenth century until
the most recent borders
here we are between the Czech Republic
and slovakia
these borders only exists
officially since 1993
besides following the only revolution
knows in europe his death the revolution
velvet
I went up to the north of Europe
here and I am between Sweden and the
Finland
there cannabis is the first area in
europe with a free zone
circulation that has already been in place
50s for arrivals to the south
of europe in places really
back here we’re on the border between
Bulgaria and Greece in the village
of small village coggia almost in
self-sufficiency
a few meters from the border with
greece i’ve seen places
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