Ilyes Griyeb – Morocco Spatial the historian

the historian

thinkers of the African diaspora

gorse branches scratched past incidental stains morphed from inconvenience to involvement

240 × 295 mm

Kawada’s The Map / Chizu is the most famous and sought after book in the history of Japanese photography

Ilyes Griyeb – Morocco Spatial the historianIlyes Griyeb's photographs are the product of a double consciousness, in the manner of W. E. B. Du Bois or Frantz Fanon, thinkers of the African diaspora, who evoke the internal conflict and the dual identity specific to minorities: this impression of always looking at oneself through the eyes of the other (the white man, the colonizer), often tinged with contempt or pity. This internalized fracture provides the photographer with a certain distance,