Mouna Karray

Karray developed the Self Circumstances series of self portraits while she was in Tokyo in 2000, which is based on Karray's experience of moving to Tokyo from Africa. The self-portraits were shot with hung metal rings in a public park. Karray used these in her self-portraits to evoke the impression of being lost in a labyrinth, which she perceived Tokyo to be at the time.[3]

In Au Risque de l’identite/ Identity at Stake, Karray would recruit women volunteers, without priorly meeting them, to come and take photographs. Then, after taking a shot of these women, she would dress up as them and replicate the image she had just taken, as a photography series as well as a performance art piece. The models in these photos were never prompted to pose, resulting in completely natural views. The model's natural posture and attitude would then have to be matched by Karray.[3]

From 2007 to 2009, Karray photographed the port areas of Sfax, Tunisia, the city she was born in. Murmurer depicts a gap between the decrepit ports and the rest of Sfax; in a city that is densely populated, there are few people in the images, emphasizing the contrast between the broken, abandoned structures and a lively cityscape.[7]

In 2012, Karray made a six minute video titled Live, this video is still propaganda images from the deposed president Ben Ali. This project's unedited film consisted of a discussion between a taxi driver and a passenger. They openly discuss the prior regime and the current government they are under. This piece uses the contrast of the conversation you are hearing, and the visuals of the propaganda to give the viewer an inside look into the political happenings of Tunis in 2011 and 2012.[6]

In Nobody will talk about us Karray photographs of the Southern religion of Tunisia. This region has been forgotten and cut off from the rest of the country. She is attempting to raise awareness of this forgotten region through her series of works. This work captures not only desolate landscapes, but also the people who live in them, bringing awareness to the fact that they still exist. She has stated, “I went back to the Tunisian southwest, its silent poverty, its mineral loneliness, its arid and forgotten soils whose foundations were rich with minerals, which have been confiscated and stripped from these oppressed – but not submissive – souls,”[8][9][3]