Gaël Turine

B. 1972- BELGIAN Based in Brussels

Gael Turine is the author of several monographic works, including Aveuglément (Blindly), in the Photo Poche collection, a story on the cooperatives for the blind in West Africa. Several journeys in Afghanistan led to the publication, in 2004, of the book Being 20 in Kabul. A long-term collaboration with the child cancer specialist Eric Sariban led to the publication in 2009 of the book Aujourd’hui c’est demain (Today is tomorrow) with Delpire Editions. In 2005, he started to work on vaudou rituals in Africa, Haiti and the United States, achieving his photographic work in August 2010.

The book Voodoo came out in January 2011. Between 2012 and 2014, he focused on the India/Bangladesh border wall. The book Le mur et la peur (The wall and the fear) was published in September 2014 in the Photo Poche series at the occasion of the exhibition in Visa pour l’Image festival. Between 2013 and 2017, Gael Turine produced a personal work on the city of Port au Prince. This series was published in the book En bas la ville. Turine’s work is exhibited in galleries and museums, and during festivals. He is involved in group photographic projects with international photographers for collective books and exhibitions. Gael Turine leades workshops programmes in various countries and teaches Photojournalism and Documentary photography at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Assignments and personal stories have been published in the main European, United States and Asian magazines.

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A Train in the Bush

Gaël Turine

The train linking Ivory Coast to the Burkinabe capital is a tribute to slowness. This line is one of the oldest and longest in West Africa: 1,145 kilometres of tracks, which the train, ironically called "the Express", takes an average of thirty-two hours to travel. Used to transport 200,000 passengers and 900,000 tonnes of freight…