Safia Delta is a visual author and writer based in the south of France. After studying linguistics, American culture and literature, she dedicated herself to teaching. She started taking pictures in 2015. Photography wasn’t a natural heritage and came quite late in her life. First as a means to keep track of time, then as a essential tool of documentation. Her commitment to film photography has impacted her practice and given a peculiar direction to her projects. Relying on a limiting medium associated with outdated values and aesthetics echoes her desire to revisit the past, her acute sense of nostalgia and her obsession with the passage of time. Through off-beat moments and moody contemplative scenes, the recorded image becomes the mirror of a mental landscape and an incredible tool of exploration, empowerment and self-expression. In 2018 her interests in arts led her to create Intérieur-s - a series of articles inviting the reader in a sensitive, visual study confronting paintings and photographs. In 2019, she joined Fragment Photography Collective.
Safia on Intérieur-s : https://link.medium.com/NZQ9BDMaP7
Safia on Fragment : https://www.fragmentphotos.com/safia-delta
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/safia_delta/
Lola Khalfa’s studies in Web Design and Computer Graphics led her to discover the world of photography and graphics, which she is currently teaching herself. Since 2011, she has been dedicating herself, completely, to photography. Her social and political photographs explore issues in a rural and authoritarian Algeria experiencing civil conflict. Today, her work is more social and intimate, focussing on the artist’s personal and existential questions.She uses a contemplative approach and invites the audience to freely interpret her profound questioning of the being. Although her work begins in the imagination, it is, essentially, founded on the reality of the human condition in Algeria and elsewhere. Her series Dégoutage presents blurry diptychs, where the expressive portraits overlap the hostile environment. Ever since she received first prize for contemporary photography in Guelma the first time she participated in the competition, and the Paris Match prize for Algerian photography, Khalfa has been exhibiting her work in Algeria, Cuba, Tunisia, Germany, as well as in le Musée de Bamako. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lola_khalfa/
After studying cinema, Lynn S.K. opted for photography in order to develop research into images around sisterhood, buried memory and the geographical in-between, directly derived from her own personal history, rooted between France and Algeria. Her work around female identity and adolescence led her to collaborate regularly with authors such as Virginie Despentes, for the film Bye-Bye Blondie, and Lola Lafon, especially We are the birds of the coming storm. Lynn has participated in solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad: Town Hall of the 4ème, Third Biennial of contemporary Arab world photography, Paris (2019), Encounters of Young International Photography, Niort (2019), Bastion 23/Palais des Raïs, Algiers (2017). She also collaborates with the press and publishing houses: Qantara, Actes Sud, Eurozine, Mediapart. In 2017/2018, Lynn won the Maghreb Photography Award, the Sony World, Photography Awards, and was nominated for the Paul Foam Huf Howard. In 2020, she was a recipient of the CNAP grant and was nominated for the Cap Prize.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnnsk/
Website: https://www.lynnsk.fr/
Nedjla Bencheikh is an Algerian photographer. Her images revolve around subjects referred to as ‘Figures’, for they mostly appear from the back, anonymous, and unclear. She seeks to highlight the distress of these central figures; which often appear in a larger landscape, gazing at the horizon and into their rather realistic aspirations and dreams that are constantly delayed due to crippling circumstances. She is also interested in finding and capturing images of places where everything is static, away from the vibrant city and the never-ending-crowded-activity. Nedjla’s introduction to photography was oddly through the cinematic world of David Lynch. She hoped to be able to recreate the similar expressive atmospheres as the ones in Lynch’s movies and still attempts to merge the subconscious dreams within oneself with reality. This fascination later grew when she discovered the breathtaking early Theater images of Josef Koudelka through a friend. Ever since, she vowed to pursue to the theme of ‘individual isolation within vibrant societies’. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoebecaulfield22/
Fatah Zohor was born in 1991 in Oran (Algeria) , she finished her Architecture studies at the university of Oran in 2013, passionate about photography, and that feeling has grown as she understands the story of behind photographs. It's her way to express herself , she started using a phone before having camera ( small Fuji), she also participated in two exhibitions, one which was collective at the French Institute of Oran, and a solo exhibition in Civoeil Galery in 2017. She created with her husband la chambre claire publisher of Book photo in 2018. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zohor_fatah.krache/
Lydia Saidi was born in 1994 in Algiers. After a university curriculum in German studies, she started working as a photographer with an audiovisual agency in Algiers, while at the same time making personal and documentary projects.
Abdo Shanan was born in 1982 in Oran, Algeria to a Sudanese father and an Algerian mother. Abdo studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Sirte, Libya until 2006. In 2012, he undertook an internship at Magnum Photos Paris, which gave him the opportunity to reflect on his photographic approach and make his first story for the magazine 'Rukh'. His photographs have been published by a number of printed and online magazines as well as by newspapers. In 2015, he received a nomination for Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, and in 2016 his series 'Diary: Exile' was selected by the Addis Fotofest. Abdo in 2019 won The CAP Prize(Contemporary African Photography) for his ongoing project “Dry”, in the same year he is selected for Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo.
Born in Algiers in 1992, Awel Haouati is a doctoral researcher in anthropology. Her research focuses on photography in the context of the 90s war in Algeria.
