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In 2015, Edouard Elias documented the lives of French Foreign Legion soldiers at their base in Nîmes. The photographer shows the legionnaires during their strickly regimented everyday life, and few moments of quiet. During their first five years in the troop, young members of the foreign legion are forbidden to leave the barracks without wearing their uniforms. Back in 2014, Edouard Elias already accompanied the foreign legion during their intervention in the Central African Republic.

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Edouard Elias

Born in Nîmes in 1991. After spending ten years in Egypt, Elias returned to France and studied photography at the Écoles de Condé in Nancy. After doing a reportage on a refugee camp in Turkey, he began to document the Syrian civil war. He spent ten months in prison there. His work has appeared in Der Spiegel, Paris Match and Sunday Times Magazine.

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