25/06/2026
Where the Sun Keeps Shining / Photography by Lili & Rami Mekdachi / Artwork by Noé Mekdachi / Les Éditions de La Martinière & Abrams Books.
Where the Sun Keeps Shining is a photographic meditation on light, presence, and the silent power of the sun.
Across America, Europe and Asia, Rami and Lili Mekdachi capture places not for what they are, but for what they become when touched by sunlight.
Under the sun, the world opens. Colors intensify, shadows stretch and soften, and even the simplest scenes acquire depth and emotion. Light reveals textures, creates contrasts, and offers objects a renewed clarity. There is something hopeful in this illumination, a feeling that everything becomes possible, that space breathes, that time slows just enough to allow us to see.
This book gathers images from different continents without hierarchy or distinction. Geography dissolves. What matters is not the destination, but the shared sensation of being under the same sun. Whether in a city or a landscape, in the West or the East, the emotion remains universal. The sun becomes the true subject, a common force that connects places, beings, and moments.
Where the Sun Keeps Shining does not seek to locate a specific place. It is about recognizing a state of being, a moment when light transforms the ordinary into something luminous. Strength lies not in where we stand, but in what happens when the sun appears, when it reminds us of warmth, openness and life itself, wherever we are in the world, that energy which connects places inspires a shared feeling of clarity and quiet hope
