THE TRAP
Trap
A dangerous or unpleasant situation which you have got into and from which it is difficult or impossible to escape.
Trap house
A drug house, also known as a trap house, bando, jugg house, or crack house, is a building where drug dealers and drug users buy, sell, produce, and use illegal drugs.
Trap music
Trap music is a style of hip hop music that was developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s in the Southern United States. The largest influences of Trap come from Atlanta, Georgia. Trap music is known for its ominous and often bleak, gritty vocals and lyrical content.
It’s consider to be one of the most popular music genre worldwide for the last five years (2015-2020).
All the photographs in this book were made in and around Atlanta (Georgia) in 2018.
They are directly or indirectly linked to Trap music.
Overview of the serie.
THE TRAP Edited by Hatje Cantz - 51 pictures, 128 pages, english text, introduction by Gucci Mane.
-The picture « Red Dawn » was selected and exhibited by the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait Gallery of London
in 2018.
-The dummy book got shortlisted and exhibited by the Dummy Book Award at Rencontres d’Arles 2019.
-The book was launch at Paris Photo, in November 2019.
Credits
Photographs: Vincent Desailly
Editor: Nadine Barth
Editing & sequencing: Louis Canadas
Editorial direction & graphic design: Jade Lombard
Out of print.
Views from the exhibition and book launch in Paris during Paris Photo 2019.
