“I would say the archive of the AIF [Arab Image Foundation] is not a source but an outcome of a research project that I largely contributed to on photography in the Middle East and North Africa. I do not use existing archives as sources for developing work. I would like to be precise that my work aims to bring to light stories, experiences, and documents, and so many links within all of them. So the work generates collections of documents, records mainly photographic, which are kept by the AIF. It is not the other way around.” Akram Zaatari in an interview conducted by curators Eva Respini and Ana Janevski for Projects 100: Akram Zaatari, 2013 “Akram Zaatari” is on show at SALT Beyoğlu until February 18, 2015. moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/projects/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Interview-Akram-Zaatari1.pdf
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