INTERVIEW: " Lise Sarfati – The New Life Interview" (2011)

Lise Sarfati – ‘The New Life Interview’ (2011)

Sloane #34, Oakland CA

“Suddenly when I tried to speak with people they would not answer me. So there we were completely isolated in America while the US was at war.”

By Robert Wiedenfeld for ASX, March 2011

Robert Wiedenfeld: Initially how d

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I wanted to go to the States and to work there. I loved the feeling of my body in this space… I felt free. I decided to do a road trip and to produce it myself. François came with me. I had no idea what I was wanting to do… just a road trip from the east to the west like in the American tradition of photography, but not with the same spirit. Once I started, I realized quickly that the circulation of people was quite strange.