Charles Fréger – Cimarron

Freedom and masquerade!

Since the 16th century, enslaved Africans across the Americas have escaped their captors and founded their own communities or joined forces with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. The portraits in this enchanting book by photographer Charles Fréger document their present-day descendants and their rituals, staged in extraordinary masquerades. Supplemented with ethnographic texts set in their historical context.

The French photographer Charles Fréger (born 1976) is one of the leading figures in contemporary European photography. He is a co-founder of the artists’ collective ‘POC’ (Piece Of Cake).

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Hardback: 320 pages, numerous colour illustrations
Language: German
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 978-3-868328-906-0