Alban BIAUSSAT

Exploring the notion of community in the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle in South London, an area where a massive urban regeneration programme will take place in the coming years, I decided to focus on what most impressed on me there: signs of social control. This project...

In the Middle East, new political concepts, initiatives and slogans are plenty, supplementing each other month after month as the previous ones exhaust themselves. In this part of the world, enduring abstract thinking tends to lose vision. But there is one reference that has...

This project looks at derelict and consumerist architecture and infrastructure in Israel and searches for traces of politics in the landscape. It merely came out of my enduring sensitivity to modern commercial vulgarity and fading industrial design during the five years I stayed...

This project explores Palestinian neighbourhoods showing an anarchy of hanging electric wires that define one's visual space. It came in reaction to Israel's control over Palestinian electric networks, especially in the Gaza Strip, while the plethora of wires work as a symbol of...

In most instances, images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have depicted destructions, political activities, and violent human relationships, focusing on news or documenting anecdotic situations. Media coverage and analyses often respond to the problematic of the moment, and...

Long gone are the balmy evenings passed watching films in raucous open-air theatres filled with hundreds of other people in equal entertainment of the screen before them. Following a rapid development after the country gained its independence from France in 1960 and until the...