Icarus Complex Magazine · 2020

Water Scarcity, Chenini

Commissioned to photograph the south of Tunisia for an article by journalist Layli Foroudi on water scarcity, featuring local farmer Am Salah, who has continued preserving local seed varieties despite the odds.

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Chenini, Tunisia · June 2020 · Photographs by Mahdi Khmili
Cracked earth across a dried riverbed at Chenini, palms and low hills behind Chenini, Tunisia
A dead shrub standing in a wide dried riverbed at Chenini Chenini, Tunisia
Cracked ground meeting a line of tamarisk bushes at the edge of the oasis Chenini, Tunisia
Close detail of curled plates of dried mud Chenini, Tunisia
An industrial plant on the horizon beyond the oasis at Chenini Chenini, Tunisia
Am Salah crouching in his plot, firming the soil around a young pepper seedling Am Salah, planting
Am Salah standing among the flowering crops he grows for seed Am Salah
Closer portrait of Am Salah among the flowering crops he grows for seed Am Salah
A farmer crouching at the edge of a wheat field, grain held in his open hand Chenini, Tunisia
PhotographsMahdi Khmili
WordsLayli Foroudi
SubjectAm Salah
PublishedIcarus Complex Magazine, Issue 2, 2020
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