Synopsis
Journey to the End of the Seas traces the career of Marcel Mochet, a photojournalist who devoted a major part of his work to the maritime world. During his thirty years at Agence France-Presse, he documented deep-sea fishing, the merchant navy, the French Navy, offshore activities, and ocean racing, regularly boarding vessels around the world. The documentary looks back on a photographic practice rooted in immersion and close contact with those who work at sea. From the cold waters of the Far North to the Southern Ocean, Marcel Mochet captures the identities and living conditions of these crews. Through his photographs and testimony, Journey to the End of the Seas highlights a body of work attentive to the human, social, and physical realities of life at sea. It also extends the work brought together in Les Pêcheurs des extrêmes, Mochet’s book devoted to deep-sea fishing crews, which received the Prix du livre maritime in 2013.
What you will find in this film
Thirty years of maritime photography alongside crews at sea • A practice shaped by immersion, endurance, and proximity • The daily lives of seafarers, between labor, isolation, and solidarity • From northern waters to southern seas, a human world marked by hardship • A photographer’s eye attentive to gestures, faces, and life on board
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Further exploration
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Allan Sekula – Fish Story, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 1995. (English) – A foundational work on maritime labor, ports, circulation, and the politics of representing the sea.
Marcel Mochet – Les pêcheurs des extrêmes, Éditions du Rocher, 2012. (French) – The most direct companion to the film, centered on deep-sea fishing crews and everyday life aboard industrial vessels.
Marcel Mochet – Ouvriers de l’océan, Palantines, 2013. (French) – Expands Mochet’s maritime archive beyond fishing to naval and offshore worlds.
Anita Conti – The Ocean World of Anita Conti (selection/exhibition volume), various editions. (English/French depending on edition) – Useful for thinking about immersion, labor, and the long history of photographic and written attention to seafaring communities.
Susan Meiselas – Mediations, Fundació Antoni Tàpies / Yale University Press, 2018. (English) – A key reference for reflecting on documentary ethics, long-term engagement, and the relationship between photographer and subject.
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