PHOENICIA: IRRATIONAL CATALOGUE

48 Euros

184 pages // 21x27 cm

Color / B& W pictures, Soft Cover

ISBN: 978-3-00-070210-5 Alfonso Moral © 2021

Showed in the form of a Catalogue raisonné, this photo book is a trip to an imaginary country within the borders of Lebanon, where the photographer lived and worked for many years. “ The link I have been forging with Lebanon is ages old. This book is about this relationship transmuted here into an invented and imaginary territory named Phoenicia.

“My little Phoenicia is built on an amalgam of clichés and personal experiences. Together they form a biased and romantic view. This irrational catalog attempts to connect my experiences with those I would have liked to live. At a distance, some of my memories blend confusingly with others that were never of reality”. Says the author.

ZERO

36 Euros

First edition / 150 Copies

80 Pages // 21x30 cm

Black & White contact sheets  // Hardcover, wire-O Binding

ISBN: 978-3-00-062666-1

Alfonso Moral © 2019

Zero comes from the Arabic word Safara, which means emptiness. The Arabs assigned to this number the lack of quantity. This book proposes an approach to the concept of zero through photographs taken in Libya and Syria during the armed conflict.  Between the beginning and the end. Between the positive and the negative. Pending. From the broken dreams of the Libyan revolution to the endless war in Syria that has plunged the country into chaos without any close solution. 

Zero as the sum of multiple actors and situations that have failed to obtain any results so far, only an empty sum. Zero as a collapse.