In the past ten years, Morocco has gone through an extensive urban and sociocultural transformation. Unprecedented development projects of tract housing, strip malls, and real estate projects around the suburbs of major cities have been undertaken with remarkable speed. This project explores city fringes and borders, where the coexistence of contemporary society with nature is best characterized by the constant push of urban space into the land. Aside from this physical evolution/transformation, there is the invisible dimension of ideological and cultural transformation. This project frames the intersections between the pristine land and the urban space, the past and the future, modernity and tradition, and the consequent redefinition of Moroccan identity.
Red Facade III, Tangier 2015
"واجهة مبنى حمراء 3"، طنجة 2015
Abdelhadi Taleb, Cassablanca 2015
"عبد الهادي طالب"، الدار البيضاء 2015
Abdelaziz and his son, Tangier 2014
"عبد العزيز وولده"، طنجة 2014
Hicham Gardaf (b. 1989, Tangier, Morocco) is a documentary photographer. He was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2013 and for the Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award in 2015. He was the winner of the Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles in 2014. His work was shown in the Marrakesh Museum for Photography and Visual Arts in 2013. The same year he was taking part in Fotofever Art Fair in Brussels and year later in the Photomonth in Paris. In 2015 he participated in the first Biennial of Contemporary Arab Photography organised in the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris.
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Hicham Gardaf (b. 1989, Tangier, Morocco) is a documentary photographer. He was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2013 and for the Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award in 2015. He was the winner of the Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles in 2014. His work was shown in the Marrakesh Museum for Photography and Visual Arts in 2013. The same year he was taking part in Fotofever Art Fair in Brussels and year later in the Photomonth in Paris. In 2015 he participated in the first Biennial of Contemporary Arab Photography organised in the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris.
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