Impasse Hotel SyriaShot in Damaskus, Palmyra, Aleppo, Homs and Deir Ez Zur in 2001, Krass Clement depicts in this very personal travel and photobook a world of yesterday. In "Impasse Hotel Syria" he describes the recent past. Just 15 years ago Clement took pictures of a country that today has undergone a complete and shocking change. An entire country and an entire people have become victims of war, and this is thoughtful and creates a sounding board when you see the

vanishing points

his work does not sit easily in any tradition

allowing new perceptions to emerge

a Britain where economic and social frustrations are playing out in our newspapers and in the streets

edited and sequenced by John Myers

From 1969 the buildings were occupied and fixed up by two groups of people: activists seeking a solution to the housing crisis

panoramic and tactical

through fair and foul means

His work has been included in many group exhibitions

It is an archival record of the architectural landscape rather than meditation on loss

” The pocket-sized publication features previously unpublished images and written reflections where El-Tantawy takes readers behind the photographs and into the thoughts and emotions that went into making them

just to reinforce to yourself the beauty is underpinned with challenge