Following military orders, he photographed women and men who were forcibly displaced from their villages to so-called camps de regroupement (regroupment camps) by the French army. Displacement formed a military strategy intended to disrupt the support networks between villagers and anti-colonial fighters. The photographs taken by Garanger were included with the newly issued identity cards that each individual had to carry with them in the camps. Since most men had left their villages to join the anti-colonial struggle, the overwhelming majority of these photographs are of women.

“There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.” ― Fatema Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

Scanned from the book Exploring 50 Years of Livelihood and Landscape Change in Wadi Fatima, Saudi Arabia; Motoko Katakura

a quick list of those that I could remember. hope you find what you wanted. worth mentioning that the list contains authors from different ethnic and religious origins!

The San Antonio Museum of Art.

— ABDELMAJID BENJELLOUN ⚜️ Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, transl. by Arthur J. Arberry, (1950)

I don't own any mirrors. In sleep, I scrape ticks off the windows. Once, a bird startled itself into the apartment and I was alone. If I throw a nickel off the bridge, I'm thinking about my niece. While the city slept, sound dripped slow down the street. An unnatural thing. The festering mess to suddenly dampen and quiet. None of the wounded dogs moaned. None of the children woke curled around ghosts. During the day, I wore a loose dress and bought pastries from a bakery and thought of all the people I'd like to touch. At night, I imagined the ways I could sink. My little fears and aches, the stupid rust in my chest. Define: daughter. Define: obligation. Define: heartless. I swear, I'd be better if I could. The girl was named Rumisa and I read to her in English and that's all you need to know.

Allen Ginsberg. Jack Kerouac holding William S Burroughs’ cat at Vila Muneria, Tangiers, in 1957

— Jim Carrey

start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

Some people are a source of relief for others, like rainfall. And then there are those who provide shade like the trees. However, you also come across people who are like deserts. No matter how much you do for them, there's no loyalty or benefit.

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Inês Donadeu (Spanish, based Houston, TX, USA) - Librería Santa Bárbara in Madrid, Spain, January 2021 after Storm Filomena, Photography

— Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past