Le bled Buildings in a Field

A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier Morocco a city where neither of us had ever been En route from the airport to the city center we found ourselves amazed by the landscape outside of the car windows a massive construction project under way in all directions While not in itself unusual we were by struck dumb by the epic scale and seemingly incomprehensible plan of the development and were drawn to return together to this puzzling zone This project was commissioned by TAMAAS a small foundation based in Paris as part of their Tangier project The 8