During the last week of February 2016, we headed over to the 6th Marrakech Biennale for it’s opening week. Lead by curator Reem Fada, this edition titled “Not new…
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One mustn’t confuse the Cairo Biennale, normally organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, with the Something Else project, Off Biennale Cairo. Overseen by the curator Simon Njami and themed…
In November 2014, the French Institute in Fez asked me to take care of the artistic programme for the 9th Fez International Photography Encounters, part of the 2015 France-Morocco Cultural…
From February 14th to March 15th, GRID, the international photography biennial, will be held for the first time outside of the Netherlands, in Cape Town. Curated by Florentine Lodeizen, who…
During our first look at the young Moroccan photography scene, we mentioned Tswira, a platform whose editors scours Instagram and Facebook in search of new talent. On January 23rd, Tswira…
In 2011, a few months after the fall of Ben Ali, at a workshop organized by the Shutter Party in Tunis, I met a group of photographers that included the…
Our tour of the web continues with a look at young photographers in Morocco. A year ago, we saw the first work by Ayoub Saouab on the Moroccan site Tswira. Saouab…
The photographer Zahrin Kahlo is constantly posting pictures which have inspired her to her Facebook page: self-portraits, series about women and so on. First discovered on social networks, the Moroccan public discovered…
Arièle Bonzon’s artist’s book Passer/L’esprit du désert offers an intimate vision of the Moroccan desert, which she visited in 2002. She returned with a collection of color and black-and-white photographs…
Some of the most important venues for young photographers in Morocco are social networks. We first noticed Yasmine Hatimi’s retro fashion photographs in the magazines Brownbook and Illi, and on…