EXTRAMUROS — William Keo
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Estimated release date: February 2027
EXTRAMUROS began in 2016 with William photographing everyday life in his own neighborhood in Seine-Saint-Denis. Over the years that followed, he continuously documented the Paris suburbs, developing a long-term body of work shaped by proximity and commitment.
With a photojournalistic approach, William focuses on how people live there, alongside the presence — and absence — of public services. From hospitals to improvised football tournaments, from police stations to demonstrations and prisons, he project brings together a wide range of situations and viewpoints, exposing the tensions between institutions and those they govern.
The book stays close to lived experience, resisting simplified narratives and embracing the complexity of the realities it moves through. Combining photographs, contributions from scholars, and testimonies, EXTRAMUROS examines a fragmented society at the margins of the capital. Conceived as a walk through the neighborhoods and structured around recurring cycles of violence, the book explores broader themes of identity, power structures, and the social and architectural organization of the urban periphery.
William Keo is born in 1996 in France to a family of Cambodian refugees. His work engages with issues of migration, social exclusion, and intercommunity tensions. He began his photographic career working with NGOs, covering the Syrian refugee crisis, the conflict in Darfur, migration routes across Europe, and the humanitarian crisis affecting the Rohingya people. Since 2019, he has documented the cycles of violence that followed the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, as well as current affairs in France and internationally for the press, including the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine.
He was a member of Magnum Photos from 2021 to 2025. Closer to home, he continues to document the suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, where he grew up. His work has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, Le Monde, Libération, Vogue, New York Magazine, among others. EXTRAMUROS was recognised in 2026 with the World Press Photo Award.