About the work:
This series was captured using intentional camera movement and long exposure, transforming the physical architecture of a traditional souk into a psychological space. The blur is not a defect, it is a language. A way to show how time corrupts clarity, how presence is not binary, and how cities carry the ghosts of their own histories.
Inspired by the Provoke movement in postwar Japan, as well as the photographic poetics of Daido Moriyama, Alexey Titarenko, Olga Karlovac and Josef Koudelka, the images operate somewhere between documentation and dream.
By day, the souk lives.
It trades in coffee and spices, heat and barter, hands and voices.
But by night, it does something else entirely:
It remembers.
These images are not documentation. They are echoes.
In this series, I walk the market long after its breath has quieted.
The lanterns still burn, but they no longer illuminate, they haunt.
The people you see are not portraits.
They are residues, passersby, lingering, fading, as if time itself forgot to fully erase them.
Everything is in motion, yet still.
Sharp lines are softened into gesture.
Architecture dissolves into abstraction.
Light bends, dances, blurs.
I do not photograph moments, I photograph the act of forgetting.
This is how memory feels: imprecise, luminous, and unsteady.
Every image is a fragment,
A half-heard story,
A footstep in the dust.
BASSEM H. BOUSTANY Photography 
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