In this iteration of Formations, our photographic contribution, we place our thematic motive of the societal and political context of voices in contact with the work of photographer Imane Djamil (b. 1996, Morocco). In her recent series, we see several unstaged fragments of the daily lives of the local community of Tarfaya, a coastal town in southern Morocco. While we encounter their presence through the photographs, equally we become aware of whose voice is missing, through Djamil’s accompanying texts and hand-drawn maps. Tarfaya becomes an emblem for a state of being in between: it is equally close to the Canary Islands, which we associate with leisure and prosperity, as it is close to the severely precarious migratory sea passage in the Atlantic Ocean. Whose voice is heard, and whose voice is not, becomes increasingly urgent in a town whose significance is made up by all the different projections that have been made by its inhabitants, its visitors, and by those who have only seen its shoreside from a distance.

This formations was originally published in issue #28.

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