“Photography can help raise awareness and elicit empathy for the matters at stake – even it might sometimes be necessary to bend the message towards a more subjective and conceptualised direction. Today, we – the ‘visually literate’ audience – are seemingly ready to accept alternative approaches to the photographic documentation of social issues, including migration. Here is a very interesting attempt: In 2015, when a refugee camp settled in the Maximilian Park in the centre of Brussels, Maroussia Prignot (b. 1981, Belgium) & Valerio Alvarez (b. 1976, Belgium) decided to work together on a photographic project about the issue of asylum and the way in which migrants are received within the Belgian state. They went to a Reception Centre and got permission to enter and meet the people who are waiting for a response from the General Commissariat for Refugees and Stateless Persons. Their aim was to create a bond, an exchange of experience, a meeting.” Here, Waiting.
