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| Bourouissa - Périphérique (2005-2009) |
Reading through the course notes I came across this:
...new platforms are pushing the boundaries of documentary and challenging stagnant and outdated conceptions of the genre. Take, for example, the long-held notion that documentary is necessarily the result of a recording process and not a product of the imagination, as Jean-François Chévrier argued in Documentary Now! (2005, p.47). If this were true then Mohamed Bourouissa, a French Algerian photographer based in Paris, would not be, strictly speaking, a documentary photographer.
So I googled Mr Bourouissa and clicked around on the front page of his website, which looks like this:
