Yasmina Benabderrahmane - La Bête A Modern Tale Vernacular photography

Yasmina Benabderrahmane - La Bête A Modern Tale Vernacular photographyMACK 2020 In 2012, Benabderrahmane returned to her home country of Morocco after 12 years, crossing the dunes and plains to create Super 8 films mapping out the ever changing landscape. The film stills collected in this book invite us to follow the path winding between tradition and modernity. We travel to the Bouregreg Valley, a new cultural centre which symbolizes the modernity and changing physiognomy of ancestral lands. Further afield, we discover

paint peels in the stairwell

and Goethe’s corridor

printed in Germany

Mosse underscores the provisional architecture of the camps and the ways in which each camp is variously marginalised

photograms made from her mother’s ashes

and return to us – through scenes that appear both fragile and immovable

These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral

if by that we mean ‘easy to get into’

'Eros and Photography' (1977)

the children going to school

Mississippi

The street