Photography
Karim Kal / Clément Chéroux
For the past fifteen years, Karim Kal has been developing his work from a documentary perspective. The descriptive nature of photography is nuanced by his work with light and composition. His photographs offer an indexical understanding of the territory, seeking a balance between elements that allow for a social and political reading of the subject and a formal economy that draws on the vocabulary of abstraction.
Many of the photographs taken with a view camera were shot in working-class neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities such as Lyon, Paris, and Algiers. A record of forms, Karim Kal’s images simultaneously refer to the idea of the relegation of suburban territories and to a pictorial formalism evoking the geometric abstractions of the 1970s and 1980s.
This first monograph is accompanied by an unpublished text by photography historian Clément Chéroux.
Arrière-pays, 24×30 cm, 196 pages, approximately 100 color reproductions, French/English, hardcover
ISBN 9782843140129
Produced with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC).
Graphic design: L’Atelier d’édition
