PICTURES · HYENA BOOK
Looking
is its own way
in.
Images extend the reading experience. They were never meant to be mere illustrations. They exist alongside it—as a space where the eye can rest… and feel in a new way.
Each photograph is a fragment of the novel —
a visual echo of the world of Hyena.
Between the visible… and the sensed.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Houria Semo.
To see is already to feel.
Houria Semo has been a photographer for 15 years. She began where everything starts—in the heat of live concerts, bathed in red light and moving bodies, her lens aimed at the fleeting second.
It was through music photography that she sharpened her eye: capturing the moment just before or just after, the split-second where something true reveals itself.
Today, she turns her gaze toward fiction. For the novel Hyena, she has created a series of photographs that don’t tell the story—they show it. A different gateway into this universe, through imagery rather than words
15
YEARS OF PRACTICE
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CONCERTS PHOTOGRAPHED
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NOVEL — HYENA
Visual
Fragments
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE _________
Images that shadow the book
without retelling it.
01
TheVisual Echo
Each photograph responds to a passage, a feeling, a moment in the book. No direct illustrations—only resonance. The reader recognizes it without knowing exactly why.
02
TheIn Between
Between what is seen and what is sensed. Photography inhabits that very space—where reality and imagination graze one another without ever truly touching.
03
The fragment
Not a complete narrative. Shards. Textures. Suspended moments. Multiple doorways into the world of Hyena—to be explored in order, or at random.
