The designer and roving archivist creates networks for artists and photobook publishers across the Middle East and North Africa.
At Aperture’s gallery, Palestinian photographer Taysir Batniji discusses his new book and exhibition, Home Away from Home.
Tampering with photographs is common practice for artists today; this exhibition demonstrated that the strategy is even more relevant for Middle Eastern photographers.
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.