Algeria-born French photographer and Deutsche Börse award-winner Mohamed Bourouissa’s series Périphérique was shot between 2005 and 2008, and this book is the first full presentation of the series, aiming to contextualise his images of people living in the ‘banlieues’ of Paris.

The photographer took an unusual approach to documenting life for the marginalised people living in the outskirts of the French capital: instead of shooting real life, he chose to “appropriate the codes of history painting” by staging scenes with his friends and acquaintances in places where they once used to hang out.

When the images were shot in the mid-2000s, it was against a backdrop of unprecedented riots against social inequality in the banlieues; the new edition looks back on that  original context “in light of still-prescient social, economic and political issues”, according to the publisher.

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