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8.75 × 7.25 IN / 22.2 × 18.4 CM
154 PP / 99 color plates
Softcover, Text in English
ISBN 978-1-7335212-9-1
Edition of 100
Look Inside America is a photographic book by Anthony Hamboussi built from two periods: September 2001 and 2018–2024.
The images move through everyday spaces across the Northeastern United States—homes, storefronts, streets, and landscapes—where political, religious, and economic ideologies are openly displayed.
Trump flags and MAGA slogans, Confederate imagery, crosses, and appropriations of American Indian culture exist alongside signs that mark land for sale, corporate messaging that reframes crisis, and surfaces shaped by commerce and ownership.
Within this landscape, power appears through familiar forms: a bound and gagged female body displayed as decoration; religious iconography merged with violence; a child’s image used to promote patriotism as moral truth. These elements reinforce one another.
At the same time, the work traces counter-voices: protest signs, handwritten messages, and public expressions of grief, resistance, and solidarity. Calls for peace, redistribution, and liberation interrupt the dominant narrative.
Animals appear in the book—confined in zoos, held within industrial farms, tagged and managed. Even the American eagle appears behind bars. Control extends across human and nonhuman life.
What begins in the shadow of the September 11 attacks unfolds into a broader examination of how ownership, nationalism, and exclusion shape everyday life. The most recent photographs confront the messaging that followed October 7, 2023, tracing how Zionist propaganda circulates across the American landscape while opposing voices name it as genocide.
Interwoven with texts from figures across time, the book connects these images to a longer history of dispossession and resistance. This is a landscape of ownership and of refusal.
About the Author
Anthony Hamboussi is a photographer, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. His work has been exhibited in the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, International Center of Photography, MoMA/PS1, Americas Society, Queens Museum and SculptureCenter, New York. He has published four monographs, Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York’s Industrial Waterway, Cairo Ring Road, La Petite Ceinture and Cairo Dream. He has co-authored two books; What is Affordable Housing? with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and LIC in Context with Place in History. Hamboussi has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Jerome Foundation, En Foco, and the New York State Council on the Arts in Architecture, Planning & Design. He is the founder of L Nour Editions a non-profit publisher specializing in photobooks by artists from the SWANA region and their diaspora. Hamboussi lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
8.75 × 7.25 IN / 22.2 × 18.4 CM
154 PP / 99 color plates
Softcover, Text in English
ISBN 978-1-7335212-9-1
Edition of 100
Look Inside America is a photographic book by Anthony Hamboussi built from two periods: September 2001 and 2018–2024.
The images move through everyday spaces across the Northeastern United States—homes, storefronts, streets, and landscapes—where political, religious, and economic ideologies are openly displayed.
Trump flags and MAGA slogans, Confederate imagery, crosses, and appropriations of American Indian culture exist alongside signs that mark land for sale, corporate messaging that reframes crisis, and surfaces shaped by commerce and ownership.
Within this landscape, power appears through familiar forms: a bound and gagged female body displayed as decoration; religious iconography merged with violence; a child’s image used to promote patriotism as moral truth. These elements reinforce one another.
At the same time, the work traces counter-voices: protest signs, handwritten messages, and public expressions of grief, resistance, and solidarity. Calls for peace, redistribution, and liberation interrupt the dominant narrative.
Animals appear in the book—confined in zoos, held within industrial farms, tagged and managed. Even the American eagle appears behind bars. Control extends across human and nonhuman life.
What begins in the shadow of the September 11 attacks unfolds into a broader examination of how ownership, nationalism, and exclusion shape everyday life. The most recent photographs confront the messaging that followed October 7, 2023, tracing how Zionist propaganda circulates across the American landscape while opposing voices name it as genocide.
Interwoven with texts from figures across time, the book connects these images to a longer history of dispossession and resistance. This is a landscape of ownership and of refusal.
About the Author
Anthony Hamboussi is a photographer, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. His work has been exhibited in the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, International Center of Photography, MoMA/PS1, Americas Society, Queens Museum and SculptureCenter, New York. He has published four monographs, Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York’s Industrial Waterway, Cairo Ring Road, La Petite Ceinture and Cairo Dream. He has co-authored two books; What is Affordable Housing? with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and LIC in Context with Place in History. Hamboussi has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Jerome Foundation, En Foco, and the New York State Council on the Arts in Architecture, Planning & Design. He is the founder of L Nour Editions a non-profit publisher specializing in photobooks by artists from the SWANA region and their diaspora. Hamboussi lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.