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Beyond Kantaoui

Beyond Kantaoui
By Natalie Simone

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.

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