Fine Print: Half of a bridge is still visible in the reservoir lake of the Ilisu Dam, near Batman. Bismil, Turkey, 2010 Image size:16 x 24 in (40 x 60 cm) Photographer Thomas Hoepker

Photographer Thomas Hoepker

he shot his second film

and memory—a deeply personal archive where each frame contributes to a nonlinear story of presence and disappearance

the images evoke a scrapbook of mid-century optimism

“It was only on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of May ‘68 that we took time to re-edit because we were preparing two books and various exhibitions

Fine Print: Half of a bridge is still visible in the reservoir lake of the Ilisu Dam, near Batman. Bismil, Turkey, 2010 Image size:16 x 24 in (40 x 60 cm) Photographer Thomas HoepkerIn 2020, dozens of villages have been engulfed because of this dam, tens of thousands of people displaced. It is an entire ecosystem, ancestral traditions and lifestyle that disappeared.