Above Ground – India, 2010

Where does a territory end? What are the borders which determine it, close it or make it look outwards?
An embassy is an excrescence of the country it represents. Today, I live in New Delhi, India.  I can, within a few minutes, go through a security double door and set a foot in French territory. This door is one of my country’s borders.
But here, the reality of the territory is only an administrative one. For Delhi air circulates between the walls. French and Indian people mix in an unlikely cultural combination. Ways of doing things, of thinking, of moving – two ways of life coexist everyday. Each one lays out its own space within the common space. I chose to photograph these territories from above, with a cartography style, in order to look at this France put down on Indian soil.
I chose to photograph these territories from above, with a cartography style, in order to look at this France put down on Indian soil.
 
Work made in the framework of the project “France 14” – Fourteen photographers around Raymond Depardon’s mission in France, fourteen looks on French territory. See the book