Third culture clash | The Guardian

Third culture clash: Mehdi Bahmed's identity crisis – in pictures

With troubling, dreamlike compositions, French photographer Mehdi Bahmed conveys the awkwardness of being caught between western and Arab identity.

Photographer Mehdi Bahmed uses staged images to probe the tensions between the western and Arab worlds – and the experience of living between the two. His series Entre­-Deux is showing at Diffusion: Cardiff international festival of photography, Millennium Centre, until 31 May. All images: Mehdi Bahmed.