Touhami ennadre biography examples

The first time I saw Touhami Ennadre’s photos, I knew next to nothing about the Maghreb, which means it was really a long time ago. It was a blow, a visual and artistic shock.

I was already passionate about photography, he was speaking on a cultural programme on French television and I discovered one of his emblematic photos on the small screen, the one that appeared on the poster for his exhibition in Rabat:

I’d picked up the programme on the way through and hadn’t memorised the photographer’s name.

I just remembered that he was Moroccan, but that he’d grown up in France.

And that he practised an art of black and white, of contrasting photos, of negative space that left me in awe.

This photo, taken at a funeral, is symbolic of his work.

The day I got fed up and decided to ask Google, “photo main noir et blanc photographe marocain” was enough to find him.

Touhami Ennadre is more than a photographer, he’s an artist

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