Hannah Darabi and Benoît Grimbert

Paris based artists Hannah Darabi and Benoît Grimbert create artists books with a focus on photography and urban landscape. In 2014 the duo collaborated to create the artist book Neuköln or Heroes, a journey narrative with David Bowie as the driver. The artists write “In 1977 the album Heroes, made entirely in Berlin, is released. One of the instrumental pieces of the B-side, Neuköln, restores strongly a sense of hardness and sadness that Bowie felt in relation with residents of this popular area. Thirty five years later, Hannah Darabi and Benoit Grimbert photographed this area. A contemporary counterpoint to Neuköln of Heroes, these photographs evoke both the present time and the time that goes by, or on the contrary stands still.” 

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