START: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:01
END: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:59:59
Since 1999, individuals fleeing conflicts or poverty from the Balkans, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and the Middle East have come to Calais in hopes of crossing the English Channel. Temporary camps, often referred to as “jungles,” have proliferated, and their periodic demolition has become an emblem of the “European migration crisis.” Eric Leleu’s photographs document this changing landscape of watchtowers, barbed-wire fences, flooded zones, walls, and surveillance cameras, and they explore these failed attempts to control migration and the resilient presence of migrants in and around Calais.