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Between I and Lands
- Artist
- Oumayma Ben Tanfous
- Date
- 2025
- Publisher
- Self-Published
- Format
- Artists' Books
- ISBN
- 978-1-0692592-0-2
- Size
- 20.5 × 26 cm
- Length
- 124 pp
- Genre
- Photography
Between I and Lands is the first book by photographer Oumayma Ben Tanfous. This project is an intimate exploration of return, memory, and belonging.
Twenty years after leaving Tunisia as a child, the author returned to reconnect with a homeland that had lived in her dreams but evolved in her absence. Over two years, she retraced the places imprinted in her family’s history, 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 fragility of home and the experience of returning to it.
A deeply personal yet universal narrative.
Design: Moume Maya (Studio Safar)
Text by: Dahmani Taous,
Oumayma Ben Tanfous is a Canadian-Tunisian photographer who grew up between Tunis and Montreal. Her career took off between Montreal and New York, where she became known for her intimate and evocative portraiture. Her work has been published in Vogue, Le Monde, British Journal of Photography, and Dazed.
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