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  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Feb 17, 2024




Al-Khiyam is a village in southern Lebanon. It is famous for the prison located there, which the Israelis transformed into a detention centre in which some 3,000 men and women, Lebanese but also Palestinians, active resistance fighters or ordinary inhabitants refusing to collaborate with Israel, were locked up between 1985 and 2001.


The prison was turned into a museum in 2000.


The Israeli air force destroyed the site during its bombing campaign in 2006.


In 2003, the journalist Véronique Ruggirello published « Khiam, prison de la honte » (@editions.harmattan), the testimony of 12 former prisoners.


In 2014, Souha Bechara, a Lebanese activist who was detained for ten years in Khiam, published a book about her imprisonment, « La Fenêtre, camp de Khiam » (@editionselyzad).


The photographs were taken in summer 2004.






Al-Khiyam est un village situé au sud du Liban. Il est célèbre en raison de la prison qui y est située, transformée par les Israéliens en centre de détention dans lequel quelque 3.000 hommes et femmes, des Libanais mais aussi des Palestiniens, des résistants actifs ou de simples habitants refusant de collaborer avec Israël ont été enfermés entre 1985 et 2001.


La prison a été transformée en musée en 2000.


L’aviation israélienne a détruit le site lors de sa campagne de bombardements en 2006.


En 2003, la journaliste Véronique Ruggirello publie dans « Khiam, prison de la honte » (@editions.harmattan) le témoignage de 12 anciens prisonniers.


En 2014, Souha Bechara, militante libanaise, qui a été détenue dix ans à Khiam, publie un livre de témoignage sur son incarcération; « La Fenêtre, camp de Khiam » (co-écrit avec Colette Ibrahim, @editionselyzad ).


Les photographies ont été prises à l'été 2004.








  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Jul 19, 2023

The Pavlovka pinhole fest is organized annually by the Pavlovka Art Gallery located in Kiev, Ukraine, since 2017.


This is an international festival dedicated to pinhole photography with authors from almost all corners of the world.


I will be part of the Pavlovka pinhole fest exhibition this summer, together with 60 others photographers.











I will show three colors photographs from the photo book Gröna Lund.


Format: 233x130 mm, 96 pages, 63 scanned photographs from colour negatives

4/4 printing

Paper: Munken lynx 170g (insert), Munken lynx 400g (cover), open spine binding

ISBN 9789152730478















All the photographs are captured with a pinhole panoramic camera (frame 24×56 mm), on 35mm colour film.


The amazing lines, contours and silhouettes of Gröna Lund are surprisingly well-suited to being captured by pinhole camera – the amusement park is a huge assemblage of infrastructure, with the myriad overlapping and criss-crossing angles of the various buildings and wooden and metal structures, the seemingly endless ingenious confluences and crossings of beams, tracery and buttresses.





The camera is handmade by Le Rouge, Alternative Photography.








The opening of the exhibition is on

Friday 21th July, 18:00



Hetman museum

Spasska str. 16 b - 04070 Kiev, Ukraine


Welcome !




Read more about the previous exhibition on the Blog of the






Follow the


Pavlovka Art Gallery on Instagram











The photo book Gröna Lund is available at the Online Shop!











  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Aug 20, 2022

I'll be part of the Fria Fotografers Filial exhibition at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm, together with over 60 others photographers. Black and white, and color, documentary and staged, blurred and sharp. Each photographer is his own curator!


I will show one color photograph from the project Ytterjärna Trädgårdspark - a new, long-term project I started for a few years ago in the garden of Ytterjärna, located outside Järna.


The photograph is taken with 4 x 5 in. sheet films with homemade pinhole camera.



The opening is on

Thursday 25th August, 17:00 - 19:30

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern (Stockholm)

Galleri 3



Welcome !





Four photographs from the project Ytterjärna Trädgårdspark



To join the Event, see Fria Fotografers Filial on Facebook


You can also follow me on Instagram





LDP © 2024 Järna, Sweden / mail[@]laurentdenimal.se 

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