Zighen Aym on his book Still Moments: A Story About Faded Dreams and Forbidden Pictures

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In this July 2024 conversation with Zighen Aym, a North African, Algerian-American writer, photographer and engineer, he discusses his experiences with ethnic profiling in the aftermath of 9/11, as described in his first book ‘Still Moments: A Story about Faded Dreams and Forbidden Pictures’.
'Still Moments' explores the events following his stopping along Route 66 in October 2002 to photograph some railroad tracks, when an Illinois State Police officer stopped and questioned him, which led to an FBI interrogation several months later. He further reflects on his photography, his life in Algeria, his reaction to being ethnically profiled and suspected of terrorist activities and the trauma of this experience.
About Zighen Aym
Zighen Aym is a retired engineer from the Kabylia region of Algeria (Tamurt n Leqbayel), and is currently living in Illinois USA. His love of photography started as he began to record events around him, his first camera was a Canon TX, which he bought in 1977. Over the years he also started to write emotions, ideas, and stories, which gave him another way of recording aspects of life.
His extensive B&W prints and 35 mm slides from Algeria are available for purchase. Many have appeared in magazines and books and Museum shows.
More details can be found at his website, at: www.zighenaym.com
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