Since 1999, during her repeated travels to the Middle East, Israel and East Africa, Anne-Marie Filaire has made images inhabited by anxiety more than by men, often absent from the frame. This anxiety stems as much from the photographer's solitude as from the factual reality of endless wars, intimate preoccupations and geopolitical fracas. This interlacing of two possible modes of reading illuminates the point of intersection where his work is situated, between poetic gesture and documentary concern, between a personal quest for another and observation of the fractures of history.