PERESS, Gilles - Annals of the North

Background information

The photo volume 'Annals of the North' by the French Magnum photographer, Gilles PERESS, explores the multi-layered conflict between Catholic Irish Republicans/Nationalists, Protestant Unionists/Loyalists and British troops stationed in Northern Ireland. It is about colonialism, about retribution and betrayal, about the dialectical tension between ordinary events of daily life and intense, periodic outbreaks of violence. 'Annals of the North' captures a broad spectrum of the conflict and is at once deeply personal, depressing, and at times full of humor; it is factual, political, and literary.

Contents

'Annals of the North' by Gilles PERESS is a reader to his volume 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' published at the same time - and yet it is an entirely separate book. The essays, stories, photographs, documents, and testimonies it contains give readers a variety of approaches to the complicated and contradictory storylines of Northern Ireland's drama, played out on a remarkably manageable stage." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Steidl Verlag, 2021)

About the French Magnum photographer Gilles PERESS (b. 1946)

Photo books by Gilles PERESS