Alfredo Jaar — Inferno & Paradiso
A powerful new photobook exploring humanity’s extremes
Published by L’Artiere, Inferno & Paradiso is the new book by internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar, created as part of a broader project presented at Cortona On The Move 2025 and soon at the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne. This photobook is an act of memory, a political statement, and a moving reflection on the paradoxes of our time.
A Double Image of the World
How do we live between horror and hope?
Jaar posed this question to twenty of the world’s leading photojournalists, inviting each of them to select two photographs from their archive:
– one image representing their Inferno,
– one image embodying their Paradiso.
The result is a devastating and luminous collection that challenges our numbness to suffering and reveals the small, radical moments of joy that persist even in the darkest places.
A Photobook of Profound Humanity
This is not a survey of war photography. It is something deeper—a collective self-portrait of those who have witnessed both atrocity and grace, and who have risked everything to document both.
Without aestheticisation or spectacle, the book invites the reader to linger, reflect, and be changed.
It is also a personal meditation by Jaar, who writes about his own experience in post-genocide Rwanda and the emotional collapse that followed—an experience that led him to the conviction that beauty, dignity, and solidarity remain essential artistic and political tools.
Contributors
Photographers featured include:
Samar Abu Elouf, Lynsey Addario, Motaz Azaiza, Véronique De Viguerie, Maxim Dondyuk, Abdulmonam Eassa, Donna Ferrato, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Olivier Jobard, Bülent Kilic, Alice Martins, Lorenzo Meloni, Finbarr O’Reilly, Darcy Padilla, Pablo Ernesto Piovano, Hanna Reyes Morales, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Brent Stirton, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, and Laetitia Vançon.
Now available
This book is a vital document of our time—one that dares to imagine both collapse and redemption.
→ order your copy on lartiere.com
