Ozan at Sunset. Capadoccia, Turkey (June 2020)

Mustafa, Cappadocia, Turkey

DJEBEL - Village of origin, where we come from, the place we were born.

20.2 Djebel is seen as an extention of 20.1, further exploring the reconnection of your roots, essense and sense of tribe. Capturing the personal journey taken by Lyna Ty to Tunisia for the first time, following her partner and his family to their hometown, Ksar Hellal of the Sahel regions. During the trip she was captivated and inspired by the culture, people and the surroundings she found herself within. Engrossed by the untouched raw cities of the areas visited, Ty began to contemplate what it meant to reconnect with ones home soil - the process of discovering the self in new yet seemingly familiar places.

 The Arabic phrase Djebel (لبج‭ ‬ذ‭ ‬mountain) is the literal interpretation of . When employed by emigrants in French-speaking countries this slang like phrase is used to describe returning to ones home-town or place of origin. The place we come from, where we were born, where our family origins lie. In this usage a bled is often interpreted as a small village, with a pejorative or affective connotation of a place lost in space or time.

Inge Morath, From the Top of Ribat Tower (1943)