Beyond Kantaoui

Beyond Kantaoui is a project investigating the outer edges of the tourist resort Port El Kantaoui in Tunisia.

The lavish hotels give an impression of stability and wealth; this however is profoundly contradicted when venturing beyond the tourist hub into local urban life.

Here the streets are often littered with waste, and although there are few if any attempts at landscaping or efforts to make the area aesthetically pleasing to the people who live there, the endless roads lined by fields of olive trees and freely roaming animals are hauntingly ethereal, making such areas uniquely beautiful in a way that the alien decadence of the tourist hotels and resorts can never be.

Beyond KantaouiBy Natalie Simone