"Nansen Passports - documents for stateless persons" - 2019 - photography - 90x110cm
quoting Hannah Arendt: „We Refugees“
„ … passports or birth certificates, and sometimes even income tax receipts, are no longer formal papers but matters of social distinction. We lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us; We are - and always were - ready to pay any price in order to be accepted by society“. Hannah Arendt (1943)
Nansen passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees. They quickly became known as "Nansen passports" for their promoter, the statesman and polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen_passport)