The British Journal of Photography talks with Magnum Photos photographer Abbas at this year’s Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan.
On September 11, 2001, Abbas was in Siberia when he saw TV reports of the Twin Towers in New York collapsing. The exhibition presents contact sheets, work prints, mock-up layouts and covers that never eventuated, forming a Making of documentary. It goes back over seven years during which Abbas traveled around Islamic countries, showing the questions that challenged the photographer: how has the Oumma (community of believers) responded to the horror of fanaticism? How have Islamism and Islamic terrorism or Jihadism grown out of Islam which is their shared religious belief?
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