Between I and lands – Oumayma Ben Tanfous • Archive

Between I and Lands is an intimate exploration of return, memory, and belonging.

"Twenty years after leaving Tunisia as a child, I returned to reconnect with a homeland that had lived in my dreams but evolved in my absence. Over two years, I retraced places imprinted in my family’s history: Tunis, where I was born; Djerba, the land of my ancestors; and Kerkennah, the site of my childhood summers. Documenting the tension between memory and reality, longing and loss."

Through photographs of etched landscapes and portraits of strangers, this book is a visual ode to reconciliation, uncovering the traces of home’s fragility and the experiences found in returning to it.

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Photographs and texts by Oumayma Ben Tanfous
Dear Oumayma - A Note on Return by Taous Dahmani
Front Cover: Portrait of the author, extracted from a family video archive.
Design Maya Moumne, Studio Safar

124 pages,  20,5x26 cm
300 copies
ISBN 978-1-0692592-0-2
First printing March 2025