This Day (Al Yaoum), 2003
This Day (Al Yaoum), 2003
Shot in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, this essay uses transportation, video, and photography to examine images circulating in a historically charged, and presently war-torn and divided, Middle East. From images of camels in the desert to images of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the video looks at states of mind in relation to actual geographies. The video pays tribute to an unformatted and open-ended documentary approach, and examines modes of access to information such as travel, television and the Internet, while carefully displaying the resulting iconography.
Video file
This Day (Al Yaoum), 2003, Video, 4:3, B&W and Color, English, 01:26:00, Excerpt
The Desert Panorama, 2002-2006
The Desert Panorama, 2002-2006
The Desert Panorama represents a continuous seamless pan on a desert landscape traversed by animal and human figures. This piece is based on photographs of the Syrian Desert, produced in the 1950s by Syrian scholar Jibrail Jabbur and photographer Manoug. The original images were meant as an illustration of Jabbur's book "Bedouins in the Syrian Badia".
Image
The Desert Panorama, 2002-2006, Composite digital image, in two sizes: C-Print, framed, 127 x 500 cm; C-Print, framed, 81 x 304 cm