Sophie Ristelhueber photographs at the Jeu de Paume

Beyrouth (Beirut), Photographs, 1984, 23.8x17.7cm A series of 31 black-and-white photographs and an artist’s book Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Beyrouth, Photographs, 1984 17.7x23.8cm Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Vulaines IV, 1989, diptychs: gelatin silver prints on aluminium under glass with frames covered in wallpaper, 203x77cm and 203x163 cm. Collection Joost Declercq, Belgium Vulaines is a village south of Paris, site of the Ristelhueber's family home. The artist has said of this series that: “In addition to photographing the buildings from a child’s perspective, I cut out bits of scenes from old family photo albums in order to combine them in monumental diptychs” Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Fait No 20, 1992 Colour photograph mounted on aluminium, 100x127x5 cm Fait is a series of photographs taken six months after the end of the first Gulf War and also an artist’s book including two excerpts from the treatise On War by the Prussian strategist Karl Von Clausewitz Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Fait No 46, 1992 Colour photograph mounted on aluminium, 100x127x5cm Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Every One No. 14, 1994 Black and white photograph, 270x180cm, mounted on wood fibre board. Every One gives an unadorned, detailed vision of the architecture of the stitches on scars. These scars, photographed on unnamed patients in Parisian hospitals, become allegories of civil war Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Every One # 8, 1994 Black and white photograph, 270x180cm, mounted on wood fibre board Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Eleven Blowups No 1, 2006 Digital colour print on paper, stuck directly on the wall The spark for this piece of work came from a news image of the huge crater left by the car bomb that killed Rafic Hariri in Beirut on 14 February 2005. Ristelhueber said she was the idea of the “earth swallowing itself up” Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

Eleven Blowups # 2, 2006 Digital colour print on paper, stuck directly on the wall Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

WB No 22, 2005 Colour photograph (gelatin silver print) WB refers to “West Bank” – this work brings together, says the artist, “in a very dense way, all the obsessions of my earlier works: traces, scars, the destruction of human presence, or the obstacles of all kinds that are built in order to keep others out” Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

WB # 98, 2005 Colour photograph (gelatin silver print) Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber

WB # 24, 2005 Colour photograph (gelatin silver print) Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber: