My Neck is Thinner Than A Hair is an ongoing investigation by The Atlas Group into the uses of car bombs in the 1975 – 1991 Lebanese wars. With this project, The Atlas Group examines the 3,641 car bombs that were detonated during this period. The only part that remains intact after a car bomb explodes is the engine. Landing on balconies, roofs or adjacent streets, the engine is projected tens and sometimes hundreds of metres away from the original site of the bomb. During the wars, photojournalists and others competed to be the first to find and photograph these engines.
This book consists of 104 photographs produced by photojournalists and found by Walid Raad in the archives of An-Nahar Research Centre and the Arab Documentation Centre, and accompanies exhibitions at Art Gallery of York University, Toronto and FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool. English, French and Arabic text.