Philippe Weisbecker: Le Service Shell A Travers Le Sahara Sara De Bondt Using only a compact camera

Using only a compact camera and seven rolls of film for 48 hours – welcome to 48

What happens when we walk across the floor of a studio

zooming in on the design typology of the original exhibition

he held positions at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

Philippe Weisbecker: Le Service Shell A Travers Le Sahara Sara De Bondt Using only a compact cameraImagine traveling across the Sahara in the 1930s by bus with the Trans Saharan General Transport Company, or serving remote villages as a doctor in the Congo and Rwanda. To avoid a fuel breakdown en route, people relied on Shell, which installed drinking water and fuel supply stations every few hundred kilometers. These were marked in their guidebook to Automobile and Air Tourism and carried religiously by daring motorists. This book of illustrations