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Résumé
"Dzhangal" a new book by photographer Gidéon Mendel provides an alternative portrait of residents of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France, by presenting a series of photographs of discarded items such as toothbrushes, playing cards, worn-out trainers, teargas canisters and children'dolls. The book will include over 40 photographs with writing by residents of the Jungle camp - community organiser "Africa" - student and writer Babak Inaloo, artist "Mani", and teacher Shaheen Ahmed Wali - as well as texts by author and broadcaster Paul Mason and art historian Dominique Malaquais. The publication of the book co-incided with "Dzhangal, an exhibition of the project at Autograph ABP, London from 6 January - 11 February 2017.