Lives and works in Marseille.
A graduate of the Sorbonne in Human Sciences, his chosen speciality is the medieval Mediterranean world. He started out as a self-taught photographer, working in fashion at first,
before joining the Art and Image section of the Kourtrajmé School. His photographic work focuses on the coexistence of the banal and the sacred, the urban and the rural, the masculine and the feminine. His photography is spontaneous and colourful. His work is marked by a diversity of influences and a rejection of overly clear-cut boundaries. He acknowledges the influence of fashion photography in his work, and considers poses and clothing to be central elements of his compositions.
His photographs question our relationship with the image, which is omnipresent in the ultra-modern world, through the prism of how it is made and how it appears. His work has been shown at the Palais de Tokyo (2020), the Ateliers Médicis (2021) and the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau in Les Lilas (2024). His series Islam Goes To Hollywood was selected by the New York Time Portfolio and then screened at the Rencontres De La Photographie in Arles for ‘La Nuit de l'Année’, as well as at the Salon Polyptyque in Marseille (2022). This series won him first prize at the InCadaqués festival. In 2023, he won the Emerige Revelation Prize. He is currently in residence at Artagon Marseille.
Hijacking the title of an American series, of which her mother is a fan, Islam Goes To Hollywood is much more than a visual series. It's an atmosphere that is represented and that takes the visitor into the artist's world, built from his own experience of cultural diversity.
the artist's world, built on her own experience of cultural diversity: American baseball bats and lava lamps sit alongside Muslim rosaries and kamis. Far from a clash
far from a clash of cultures, the two worlds become one within everyday scenes of undeniable visual harmony.
The object is at the heart of the image, bearing witness to the secular and sacred rituals that punctuate our daily lives. The artist collects rarities and retro bric-a-brac from antique shops, while treasuring the objects that were part of his childhood, like his grandmother's prayer rug or his old Playstation. He reactivates them in his work, playing with their historical, spiritual, traditional and aesthetic dimensions.
In his view, sacredness is not confined to religion, but also exists in the sentimental importance we attach to certain objects. His photographs titillate these emotions, between familiarity and discrepancy: ‘I work with nostalgia, using my imagination and my memories. I like to know that these references will have a different impact on different people.'
