This is more a case of photography and fiction rather than photography in fiction. Photographs, in the form of ID images, make only a brief appearance, in the story ‘The AK-47 of pick-up Trucks’.
‘EUROPA? is a collaboration between a Spanish photographer and a British writer; combining photography and fiction to examine the experiences of modern European migrants. Ignacio Evangelista’s haunting photographic series ‘After Schengen’ shows abandoned and disused European border crossings following 1985’s Schengen Agreement … writer Chris Burkham saw these photos in the UK’s Independent on Sunday newspaper, and the result is ‘EUROPA?’; a hybrid collection of images and fiction. Burkham’s short stories ask who makes these journeys after-Schengen – and peoples Evangelista’s images with characters and their narratives that explore possibility, fear, hope and unease; playing on the notion of perpetual flux that is a central part of the European experiment. Avoiding the prevalent accounts of refugees escaping war zones; instead the book focuses on the peripheral, the migrants who continually criss-cross these arbitrary lines on the map.’ (Amazon)
