Camille Farrah Lenain – Made of Smokeless Fire

Camille Farrah Lenain – Made of Smokeless FireCamille Farrah Lenains Made of Smokeless Fire weaves the personal and the political to explore the layered nature of LGBTQ+ identity as it unfolds in the shadow of dislocation, erasure, and marginalisation. Set in France, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe, and marked by pervasive Islamophobia in which queer Muslim lives are often rendered invisible, Lenain counters erasure through a deeply attentive and relational photographic

Section-sewn Softcover on newspaper stock

and archives

and activities

yet You Are What You Do reveals something more: a tenderness and empathy that courses through every frame

Images of the street

whose only goal seemed to be keeping their feet on the pavement

with jacket

Using this controlled context as a parameter

In particular

The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative

In Ayer’s imagery

to each other - Joe Dilworth