JPM
USA & France
July 2022–Present
JPM is a posthumous collaboration with my late Algerian father, who passed away unexpectedly in February 2022, in Toulouse, France. He always existed at a distance. I knew little about his dreams, struggles, and victories.
In this project, I sublimate my father’s life, from 1950s war-torn Algiers to the Agence France Presse Paris HQ, at the pinnacle of his photojournalist career in the 2000s.
When I reentered his house in July 2022, it resembled a landfill. His archive was no different. I worked like an editor would, unafraid to make radical choices. Relationships started to form between bodies of work. They were free, fluid, and radiant. The archive attained a life of its own.
To escape the drudgery of packing his house, I often walked around the Toulouse neighborhoods where he grew up and lived, taking pictures while pondering time, photography, and fractured roots.
All the pictures I cataloged, scanned, made, and incorporated in this project are asymptotic. Conclusions will remain latent. Perhaps light truly is the best disinfectant.
A photobook dummy was conceived, designed, and produced within Penumbra Foundation‘s 2024 Long-Term Program Photobooks.
It was shortlisted for the 2026 Dummy Award (Photobook Museum, Cologne, Germany), and the 2025 LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award (Rencontres d’Arles, France).
USA & France
July 2022–Present
JPM is a posthumous collaboration with my late Algerian father, who passed away unexpectedly in February 2022, in Toulouse, France. He always existed at a distance. I knew little about his dreams, struggles, and victories.
In this project, I sublimate my father’s life, from 1950s war-torn Algiers to the Agence France Presse Paris HQ, at the pinnacle of his photojournalist career in the 2000s.
When I reentered his house in July 2022, it resembled a landfill. His archive was no different. I worked like an editor would, unafraid to make radical choices. Relationships started to form between bodies of work. They were free, fluid, and radiant. The archive attained a life of its own.
To escape the drudgery of packing his house, I often walked around the Toulouse neighborhoods where he grew up and lived, taking pictures while pondering time, photography, and fractured roots.
All the pictures I cataloged, scanned, made, and incorporated in this project are asymptotic. Conclusions will remain latent. Perhaps light truly is the best disinfectant.
A photobook dummy was conceived, designed, and produced within Penumbra Foundation‘s 2024 Long-Term Program Photobooks.
It was shortlisted for the 2026 Dummy Award (Photobook Museum, Cologne, Germany), and the 2025 LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award (Rencontres d’Arles, France).
