OUMAYMA BEN TANFOUS, ‘BETWEEN I AND LANDS’
BETWEEN I AND LANDS
Size: 20.5 x 26 cm
Pages: 124
Self-published, 2025
Between I and Lands is an intimate exploration of return, memory, and belonging.
Twenty years after leaving Tunisia as a child, I returned to reconnect with a homeland that had lived in my dreams but evolved in my absence. Over two years, I retraced places imprinted in my family’s history: Tunis, where I was born; Djerba, the land of my ancestors; and Kerkennah, the site of my childhood summers. Documenting the tension between memory and reality, longing and loss.
Through photographs of etched landscapes and portraits of strangers, this book is a visual ode to reconciliation, uncovering the traces of home’s fragility and the experiences found in returning to it.
Photographs and texts by Oumayma Ben Tanfous
Dear Oumayma - A Note on Return by Taous Dahmani
Design by Maya Moumne, Studio Safar