Through a series of French military photographs produced by the Service cinématographique des armées, today called the Établissement de communication et de production audiovisuelle de la défense, Samia Henni tells the violent history of the militarily controlled camps that the French army create..
Samia Henni
Samia Henni was born in Algiers, Algeria. She is an architect and an architectural historian who works at the intersection of architecture, spatial planning, colonial practices, and military operations from the early nineteenth century up to the present day. She is the author of Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2017) and the curator of the exhibition Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria at the gta Institute, ETH Zurich; Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; Archive Kabinett in Berlin; and the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction, ETH Medal) in History and Theory of Architecture from the ETH Zurich. Currently, she teaches at Princeton University's School of Architecture.