My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair is an ongoing investigation by The Atlas Group about the use of car bombs in the 1975–1991 Lebanese wars. With this project, The Atlas Group examines the multiple dimensions of the wars and investigates the public and private events, discourses, objects and experiences surrounding the 245 car bombs that were detonated during this period. The documents presented here are one part of this investigation.

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 meters away from the original site of the bomb. During these wars, photojournalists competed to be the first to find and photograph the engines.

The following are 100 photographs produced by photojournalists and found by Walid Raad in the archives of An-Nahar Research Center (Beirut, Lebanon) and The Arab Documentation Center (Beirut, Lebanon).

The Atlas Group is a project established in Beirut in 1989 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group locates, preserves, studies and produces audio, visual, literary and other documents that shed light on this history. The documents are preserved in The Atlas Group Archive, which is located in Beirut and New York. The archive is organized in three file categories: Type A (attributed to an identified individual); Type FD (found documents); Type AGP (attributed to The Atlas Group).