As It Was 2020

On 12 March 2020, I returned to Germany after working on a reportage in Algeria. Two days later, our world seemed to have collapsed, in global quarantine because of the Coronavirus. In most countries, the choice was made for a total cessation of activity and strict lock down of the entire population.

Behind The Red Curtain

Occupied Palestinian Territories, 2020

Series | Popular resistance in the West Bank, although it is on the streets daily, receives little media attention and now, in an election year for Trump and Netanyahu, Israeli repression has increased.

ANOMIA, 2017-2020

Series | Anomia as a medical term is a brain disorder that hampers remembrance, it is sometimes a symptom of a tumor.

« Tajmaât », Un modèle ancestral de démocratie participative Kabyle, 2020

Tajmâat is a Kabyle term for the public place and its root means to gather. In Kabylia the Tajmâat is a small agora on the scale of a village. Current affairs are managed there, we meet there to resolve conflicts, discuss and take decisions.

The Silence

Strangely Familiar, 2020

Serie | The series “Strangely Familiar“ stages a tale of Freudian Uncanny: the opposition of the German words heimlich and unheimlich (familiar; unfamiliar) giving life to an eerie state of conflict.

True West, 2020

Idaho is similar to many American states: the capital Boise, with its beautiful university and mixed population, is home to only 12% of the population. In the rest of the region, there is a collection of small rural towns, where in some churches, the American flag proudly flies next to the cross...

Australia, A Season In Hell, 2020

Series | Since September 2019, Australia continues to burn under a series of particularly destructive and deadly fires. For Australian writer Richard Flanagan, "these fires will be our climatic Chernobyl".

Countermapping, 2019

Throughout November and December of 2018, Davide Monteleone have been travelling within Mexico, the United States, and Germany as part of a new project which attempts to combine multidisciplinary practices to counter-map the purported “Global Migration Crisis”, which is too frequently described as “a permanent challenge to the 21st-century states and world order” (Ignatieff et al., 2016).