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I will regularly publish here the latest news concerning my work as a photographer and translator: news from ongoing projects, the progress being made on upcoming photo books, the latest writer portraits, any newly published writer portraits in the press, current translations in progress, etc.

Syria, july 2002.

Laurent Denimal
Dec 15, 2024

A change of direction has been underway in Syria over the last few days, following a sudden upheaval in the political situation and the fall of Damascus, which led to the long-awaited departure of the Assad clan.

Here are some images of Syria taken in July 2002, during a two-week visit through the country.

You can see more photographs of the Middle East (Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon) on my Website.

Un changement de direction est à l'oeuvre depuis quelques jours en Syrie, après un chamboulement éclair de la situation politique et la chute de Damas ayant entraîné le départ tant attendu du clan Assad.

Suivent ici quelques images de la Syrie prises en juillet 2002 lors d’un séjour de deux semaines à travers le pays.

Vous pouvez voir d'autres photographies sur le Moyen-Orient (Jordanie, Egypte, Liban) sur mon site Internet.

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Al-Khiyam, Lebanon.

Laurent Denimal
Feb 17, 2024

Al-Khiyam is a village in southern Lebanon. It is famous for the prison located there, which the Israelis transformed into a detention centre in which some 3,000 men and women, Lebanese but also Palestinians, active resistance fighters or ordinary inhabitants refusing to collaborate with Israel, were locked up between 1985 and 2001.

The prison was turned into a museum in 2000.

The Israeli air force destroyed the site during its bombing campaign in 2006.

In 2003, the journalist Véronique Ruggirello published « Khiam, prison de la honte » (@editions.harmattan), the testimony of 12 former prisoners.

In 2014, Souha Bechara, a Lebanese activist who was detained for ten years in Khiam, published a book about her imprisonment, « La Fenêtre, camp de Khiam » (@editionselyzad).

The photographs were taken in summer 2004.

Al-Khiyam est un village situé au sud du Liban. Il est célèbre en raison de la prison qui y est située, transformée par les Israéliens en centre de détention dans lequel quelque 3.000 hommes et femmes, des Libanais mais aussi des Palestiniens, des résistants actifs ou de simples habitants refusant de collaborer avec Israël ont été enfermés entre 1985 et 2001.

La prison a été transformée en musée en 2000.

L’aviation israélienne a détruit le site lors de sa campagne de bombardements en 2006.

En 2003, la journaliste Véronique Ruggirello publie dans « Khiam, prison de la honte » (@editions.harmattan) le témoignage de 12 anciens prisonniers.

En 2014, Souha Bechara, militante libanaise, qui a été détenue dix ans à Khiam, publie un livre de témoignage sur son incarcération; « La Fenêtre, camp de Khiam » (co-écrit avec Colette Ibrahim, @editionselyzad ).

Les photographies ont été prises à l'été 2004.

Pavlovka Pinhole Fest 2023.

Laurent Denimal
Jul 19, 2023

The Pavlovka pinhole fest is organized annually by the Pavlovka Art Gallery located in Kiev, Ukraine, since 2017.

This is an international festival dedicated to pinhole photography with authors from almost all corners of the world.

I will be part of the Pavlovka pinhole fest exhibition this summer, together with 60 others photographers.

I will show three colors photographs from the photo book Gröna Lund.

Format: 233x130 mm, 96 pages, 63 scanned photographs from colour negatives

4/4 printing

Paper: Munken lynx 170g (insert), Munken lynx 400g (cover), open spine binding

ISBN 9789152730478

All the photographs are captured with a pinhole panoramic camera (frame 24×56 mm), on 35mm colour film.

The amazing lines, contours and silhouettes of Gröna Lund are surprisingly well-suited to being captured by pinhole camera – the amusement park is a huge assemblage of infrastructure, with the myriad overlapping and criss-crossing angles of the various buildings and wooden and metal structures, the seemingly endless ingenious confluences and crossings of beams, tracery and buttresses.