Enquête d’Identité: Patrick Zachmann’s Quest for Identity
An intimate exploration of Jewish culture and self identity in 1980s Europe
This series retraces Patrick Zachmann’s personal quest for identity. Although his father was Polish, it was only as a photographer that he began exploring and documenting Jewish people and culture. Zachmann gradually discovered a world to which he belonged, although knew very little about.
The resulting book Enquete d’Identité comprises of black and white photographs of Jewish ceremonies and rituals, often accompanied with Zachmann’s own text that reveal the complex nature of the relationship to his Jewish background.
