Visualizing the margins of Gulf cities

Manuel Benchetrit (1) , Roman Stadnicki (2)

1 CEDEJ - Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales - Le Caire/Khartoum
2 CITERES - Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés

Geographer Roman Stadnicki and photographer Manuel Benchetrit have explored the outskirts of the Arabian Peninsula cities. This traveling dialogue produced a photo essay where visual reflexions and interrogations echo the geographer's concepts. Art and geography meet at the porous opposition point of minimal pairs of thinking such as invention/reinvention, historical heritage/imported models, construction working/idle inhabiting, shown/hidden, openness/containment, etc. Here geography crosses the boundaries of its discipline and photographic illustration evades its documenting function.

Mots clés: Gulf states; Dubai; cities; margins; photography

Domaines: Géographie; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Manuel Benchetrit, Roman Stadnicki. Visualizing the margins of Gulf cities. City, 2014, 18 (6). ⟨halshs-01235474⟩