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Mohamed Bourouissa's photo series Périphérique stages moments of tension and the power relationships which exist within the ghetto-like suburbs of Paris (les banlieues). Although skirting a documentary aesthetic and using young inhabitants of the banlieues as subjects, the works are actually highly staged, often referencing painting. He describes his photographs as deriving from an 'emotional geometry' - a way of placing a subject in space to create a moment of heightened tension, when anything, or nothing, could happen. Mohamed Bourouissa is a French artist born in Blida, Algeria, he completed his masters degree at the Sorbonne and is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, he currently works and lives in Paris. English and French text.