Resumen

Our research addresses the involvement of photography as a tool in the process of heritage valorization of sites to be discovered in the Tidjditt neighborhood, located at the heart of the ancient city of Mostaganem (Algeria). “Tidjditt Project Art” is an exhibition that presents visitors with a series of images documenting, through a visitor’s itinerary, the entrance doors and access points of old houses or buildings. It highlights, through the reception of images by visitors, not only an individual connection to the past but also the temporal relationships between the memory of social groups, the history of the site, and its current and future heritage valorization. Photography serves as a means for historical understanding and is approached as a catalyst for creating a visual narrative of places, attaching great importance to distinctive features of routes and historical contexts to be discovered. Visitors are encouraged to recognize the imprint of time on space by interpreting landscape forms and their variations from one image to another. The currently collected photographic series are at the core of the analysis as they engage visitors in a quest for recognition and orientation within heritage sites. The objective is to shape a thoughtful and deliberate future considering various constraints, responding to the necessity of preserving and transmitting a historical monument to future generations.