German photographic artist Talisa Lallai, who completed her degree at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 2016, sees photography not as merely a medium for images, but rather as a physical form of expression. The artist makes use of the medium of photography to capture fleeting moments and moods and tells stories in which real and invented events are merged.
In Timbuktu, Lallai assembles found slides, maps, photographs and postcards to present the city of Timbuktu as an exotic allegory that points towards a place of culturally rooted longing and exploitative colonial history. Text from Judith Schalansky's acclaimed Atlas of Remote Islands weaves through the book.