El Dorado
Dublin Core
Title
El Dorado
Shelfmark - 168.SP.JONES
Description
Photographing in Calais over a period of two years, from November 2014 through December 2016, I documented refugees and migrants arriving there with the ultimate aim of reaching the UK. Several different camps in the area have served as temporary homes for countless people escaping war, torture and persecution in their home countries. The crisis is ongoing, and at this location near the narrowest part of the English Channel (separating mainland Europe from Great Britain), around 300 to 600 migrants at a time are now present in makeshift encampments.
The camps are places of in-between, where lives are suspended and disrupted while people seek protections and await bureaucratic validation in order to continue, in a legal sense. Settlements are under constant threat of being destroyed by French authorities, and violent interactions with police have created an ongoing struggle in Calais.
My aim is to challenges the perception of refugees and migrants with a view of intimate moments created after building trusting relationships – a response to a lack of awareness and intimacy that has fuelled negative stereotypes and racism.
A minimum of £1 from each copy of El Dorado sold will be donated to the charity Help Refugees. They support refugees across Europe and the Middle East by ensuring that vital humanitarian aid reaches them when they need it most. Mobilising quickly, they find local organisations doing the most effective work and give them what they need to help people fleeing war, persecution and poverty — whether it’s funding, material aid or volunteers. Please follow our campaign and consider donating at
https://donate.helprefugees.org/supporters/el-dorado/391/
The camps are places of in-between, where lives are suspended and disrupted while people seek protections and await bureaucratic validation in order to continue, in a legal sense. Settlements are under constant threat of being destroyed by French authorities, and violent interactions with police have created an ongoing struggle in Calais.
My aim is to challenges the perception of refugees and migrants with a view of intimate moments created after building trusting relationships – a response to a lack of awareness and intimacy that has fuelled negative stereotypes and racism.
A minimum of £1 from each copy of El Dorado sold will be donated to the charity Help Refugees. They support refugees across Europe and the Middle East by ensuring that vital humanitarian aid reaches them when they need it most. Mobilising quickly, they find local organisations doing the most effective work and give them what they need to help people fleeing war, persecution and poverty — whether it’s funding, material aid or volunteers. Please follow our campaign and consider donating at
https://donate.helprefugees.org/supporters/el-dorado/391/
Creator
Tiffany Jones
Publisher
Overlapse
Date
2019
Format
Saddle-stitched, HP Indigo print on uncoated paper
Zine Item Type Metadata
Issue Title
El Doardo
Editor
Tiffany Jones
Designer
Tiffany Jones
Contributors
Adam Arras
Michael Bradley
Eva Vermandel
Mark McEvoy
Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby at John Radcliffe Studio
Anaïs Lopez and Marga Rotteveel at Docking Station
Rouhi Shafii
Michael Bradley
Eva Vermandel
Mark McEvoy
Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby at John Radcliffe Studio
Anaïs Lopez and Marga Rotteveel at Docking Station
Rouhi Shafii
Dimensions
18.6 x 23cm
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London
Edition Size
350
Website
www.melissaarras.com
Where to buy
https://www.overlapse.com/catalog/el-dorado/
Collection
Citation
MelissaArras, “El Dorado,” Photo Book Cafe Archive, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/168.