Between I and Lands is an intimate exploration of return, memory, and belonging.
Twenty years after leaving Tunisia as a child, I returned to reconnect with a homeland that had lived in my dreams but evolved in my absence. Over two years, I retraced places imprinted in my family’s history: Tunis, where I was born; Djerba, the land of my ancestors; and Kerkennah, the site of my childhood summers. Documenting the tension between memory and reality, longing and loss.
This book is a visual ode to reconciliation, uncovering the traces of home’s fragility and the experiences found in returning to it.
124 pages, 20,5x26 cm
300 copies
ISBN 978-1-0692592-0-2
First printing March 2025
Photographs and texts by Oumayma Ben Tanfous
Dear Oumayma - A Note on Return by Taous Dahmani
Front Cover: Portrait of the author, extracted from a family video archive.
Design Maya Moumne, Studio Safar
Online orders are now closed, but a few copies are still available here and there.
Feel free to reach out to info@oumayma.ca
MONTREAL
Maktaba Bookstore
Studio Argentique
Librairie Clark
Librairie Un Livre à Soi
L'Euguélionne
QUEBEC
À L’Est de vos Empires
TORONTO
Art Metropole
Contact PBL
PARIS
Cahier Central
Librairie Sans Titre
Storm Bookstore
AMSTERDAM
FOAM
TUNIS
Bao Books
DUBAÏ
Gulf Photo Plus
MARRAKECH
Le 18
Feel free to reach out to info@oumayma.ca
MONTREAL
Maktaba Bookstore
Studio Argentique
Librairie Clark
Librairie Un Livre à Soi
L'Euguélionne
QUEBEC
À L’Est de vos Empires
TORONTO
Art Metropole
Contact PBL
PARIS
Cahier Central
Librairie Sans Titre
Storm Bookstore
AMSTERDAM
FOAM
TUNIS
Bao Books
DUBAÏ
Gulf Photo Plus
MARRAKECH
Le 18
