Title: Deconstructing Osama: the truth about the case of Manbaa Mokfhi
Photographer(s): Joan Fontcuberta
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Publisher(s): Actar Publisher, Barcelona, Spain
Year: 2007
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Language(s): Catalan, Spanish,French, English, Arab
Pages: 124
Size: 21 x 29,5 cm
Binding: leather cover
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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Afghanistan, 2007
ISBN: 9788496540903
In November 2006 Al-Zur (the Qatar-based news agency) photojournalists, Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab and Omar ben Salaad, pulled off one of the most stunning scoops in the annals of investigative journalism. Ben Kalish and Ben Salaad followed the trail of Dr. Fasqiyta-Ul Junat, a leader of Al Qaeda’s military wing. This is how Joan Fontcuberta's latest fiction project starts. A complex and ironic vision of how Western World envisages the arabic world. Photography and deception meet in this publication, which will not leave you indifferent.
"I play with the idea that all these terrorists were actually actors hired by the intelligence services to represent the bad guys. This is an idea that has crossed many people's minds. It just seems impossible that in that world, in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan, these home videos, with such a domestic aesthetic, are all real. It becomes unbelievable that some people who had the technological capacity to organise 9/11, the sophistication and the money, are not able to film a video as God commands " by Joan Fontcuberta
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