This project is a reflection on the choice of a personal identity for Moroccan youth based on a selection of portraits of young people who take their destinies into their own hands.
These individuals have the courage to choose their own realities, often pushing the limits of society further. Whether through their creative activities, their appearance, or their sexuality, they convey the image of a young Morocco - alert, changing, claiming the right to be different and celebrating diversity.
These young people, whose minds embody the resistance of a palm tree - a tree adapted to the harshest Moroccan climatic conditions - defy the conservative and traditional norms of Moroccan society on a daily basis. They cultivate their private oasis despite the obstacles they encounter in a country that they feel is not progressing at the same pace as they are, and they are inspiring others along the way.
M'hammed Kilito is a Moroccan?photographer based in Rabat. He studied photography at the Ottawa School of Art and he also holds a master degree in Political Science from the University of Ottawa.
His work explores the silent transformation of Moroccan society. Through his photographs he offers a sensitive and critical reading on questions related to socio-political themes such as the deep divisions based on class and heritage, migration, identity and social determinism. He is a member of APJD - a project of the World Press Photo Foundation and Everyday Africa.?
M'hammed work has been shown?nationally and internationally in galleries and festivals?such as Amman Image Festival (Amman), Addis Foto Fest (Addis Ababa), PHotoESPA?A (Madrid), International Biennial of Casablanca (Casablanca), R?tine argentique (Marseille), Fotofilmic gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Tate Modern (London, UK) and Visual Voice Gallery (Montreal).
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M'hammed Kilito is a Moroccan?photographer based in Rabat. He studied photography at the Ottawa School of Art and he also holds a master degree in Political Science from the University of Ottawa.
His work explores the silent transformation of Moroccan society. Through his photographs he offers a sensitive and critical reading on questions related to socio-political themes such as the deep divisions based on class and heritage, migration, identity and social determinism. He is a member of APJD - a project of the World Press Photo Foundation and Everyday Africa.?
M'hammed work has been shown?nationally and internationally in galleries and festivals?such as Amman Image Festival (Amman), Addis Foto Fest (Addis Ababa), PHotoESPA?A (Madrid), International Biennial of Casablanca (Casablanca), R?tine argentique (Marseille), Fotofilmic gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Tate Modern (London, UK) and Visual Voice Gallery (Montreal).
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