{"id":77637,"date":"2025-11-07T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1854.photography\/?p=77637"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:02:53","slug":"bound-narratives-swana-photobook-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1854.photography\/2025\/11\/bound-narratives-swana-photobook-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound Narratives is the new festival providing a decolonial approach to the photo book world"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h6>Installation shots, A Photobook World, B7L9 Art Centre, Tunis, 2025. Curated by Ro\u00ef Saade and Tamara Abdul Hadi. Courtesy of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation.<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Organiser Souheila Ghorbel tells us how the roving project has expanded to include workshops, book signings, talks, and concerts in Tunis<\/h2>\n\n<!-- 1854 MPU Ad Slot -->\n<div class=\"tr_hide_desktop_mpu\">\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1854.photo\/offersmpu25\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1854.photography\/wp-content\/themes\/thevoux-wp-child\/mpu_gifts.png\" style=\"width:100%\" alt=\"Tap for our latest subscription offers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\t\n<\/div>\t\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I spoke to publisher and designer Ro\u00ef Saade about his roving photo book library, Bound Narratives, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/editorial\/roi-saade-is-building-a-new-photobook-world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he expressed to me his frustrations about photo book publishing in the Middle East and North Africa: \u201cOur bookstores, libraries, and homes are filled with Western photo books [on the region]. Yet it\u2019s rare to find photo books from the region itself in these collections,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have no shortage of artists or storytellers from the MENA region.\u201d Just shy of a year later, his ambitions to present photo books from the region through a decolonial lens has scaled outwards dramatically.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After travelling to Beirut, Florence, Montreal, and Sarajevo since its creation in 2022,this Autumn Bound Narratives travelled to Tunis. It marks, for the first time, the project as a festival, offering an exhibition, an open-access library, workshops, book signings, talks, and concerts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organised by Saade, Tamara Abdul Hadi and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bound Narratives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unfolds into a festival across the city, activating B7L9, the home of the foundation, and also 32 Bis and Mouhit Space, running from 19 September to 14 November. The programme is focused around an exhibition, <em>A Photobook World <\/em>curated by Saade and Abdul Hadi which took place at B7L9 from September 19 to November 2. There were also\u00a0book launches, panel discussions, concerts, and workshops \u2013 all with the intention of scrutinising methods of publishing, encouraging public engagement with emerging arts in Tunis, and blurring the lines between borders. Souheila Ghorbel, Program Manager at B7L9, describes it as a \u201cvery full programme,\u201d one that \u201cactivated the exhibition from the first day with guided tours, talks, and workshops.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;77741&#8243; img_size=&#8221;FULL&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;77737&#8243; img_size=&#8221;FULL&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]\n<blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important for us as Tunisian photographers, and not only for the Tunisian scene, to approach photo books from our own perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conceived as a bridge to Jaou Tunis, the biennale of image and moving image, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bound Narratives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, co-curated with Iraqi photographer Abdul Hadi, aims to strengthen the Tunisian cultural scene through innovative curatorial formats that centre the photo book and the image. The festival\u2019s ambition, according to Ghorbel, was not only to showcase work but also to re-anchor the project in Tunisia \u2013 bringing the photo book medium closer to local audiences and practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis was the main idea behind bringing Bound Narratives to Tunis \u2013 it\u2019s a project from artists from the MENA region but it was mostly showcased in Western countries. It made a lot of sense for us to bring this project to North Africa and create a one-of-kind event in the region,\u201d says Ghorbel. \u201cWe have a lot of projects in the region about photography, about books and the arts, but not about photo books specifically.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially envisioned as a small reading room, the project expanded into a large-scale exhibition featuring over 30 artists from across the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond \u2013 including Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and Lebanon. The show was organised around three curatorial threads: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Longing and Belonging<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Upheaval<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reimagining Histories<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, exploring how artists use the photo book as a medium for counter-narratives, memory, and reclamation.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;77738&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;77733&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the festival\u2019s most powerful undertones is its decolonial spirit \u2013 rethinking how visual narratives from the MENA region are produced, circulated, and historicised. As Ghorbel explains, for many Tunisian artists, exposure to photobooks has long been mediated through Western references and institutions. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bound Narratives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> challenged that by offering a platform built from within the region, featuring creators whose perspectives are often underrepresented in global publishing circuits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s important for us as Tunisian photographers, and not only for the Tunisian scene, to approach photo books from our own perspective. Here, we have mostly Western references and we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening in the region. With this project, we discover the richness of projects that are happening that we didn&#8217;t have access to,\u201d Ghorbel continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panels such as \u201cIndependent Publishing in the Region,\u201d moderated by Mohamed Somji of Gulf Photo Plus, created space for reflection on the infrastructures of artistic production. Participants included Tunisian voices such as Zied Ben Romdhane, Souheila Ghorbel, and Moez Akkari, founder of Bao Books, a new independent bookstore in Tunis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These discussions culminated in the creation of a regional database of creators and publishing resources \u2013 an initiative toward sustainable collaboration and knowledge exchange.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;77735&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;77740&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parallel to the exhibition, the festival hosted numerous workshops, concerts, and community programs. Egyptian photographer Heba Khalifa presented her work virtually, while Maen Hammad led a skate zine-making session with Tunis\u2019s skating community \u2013 part of his ongoing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> project linking youth collectives from Palestine to Colombia and the US. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the inaugural publication of Saade\u2019s publishing house, Huwawa, launched this year which expands his efforts to practice disruptive publishing focused on artists and local economies in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A key component of the ongoing festival is the Photobook-Making Lab, led by Tamara Abdul Hadi, Ro\u00ef Saade, and Zied Ben Romdhane, in which ten Tunisian photographers are developing photobook dummies under mentorship. This lab reflects the festival\u2019s commitment to capacity-building and to cultivating a self-sustaining photobook culture in Tunisia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Ghorbel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bound Narratives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> represents a turning point: \u201cJust by having only photobooks from the region is an achievement itself.\u201d The exhibition revealed the multiplicity of approaches to bookmaking emerging from the Arab world \u2013 works that blend intimacy and politics, history and materiality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bound Narratives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will continue its journey through a forthcoming presentation at Ibraaz, the newly relaunched London-based initiative by Lina Lazaar and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation. The aim is to engage with the London art scene and its diasporic communities, and to create new synergies between the foundation\u2019s regional and international platforms.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_separator][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamellazaarfoundation.org\/bound-narratives\">Bound Narratives<\/a><i> runs until 15 November at B7L9, Tunis. <\/i><i>The exhibition <\/i>A Photobook World<i> closed its doors at B7L9 Art Centre on November 2. 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