Biography

Imane Djamil is a storyteller and documentary photographer, whose multidisciplinary practice
examines the transformation of space by humans. Her approach to image-making documents
changing spatialities such as ruinification, urban policy, built heritage and places unable to
reconcile between urbanisation and environmentalism or undergoing what the artist terms
post-traumatic transition. Engaging viewers in photojournalistic projects imbued with the style
of docudramas, her works straddle the realistic and phantasmagoric.

Her work has been exhibited in Bamako Biennale (2022); Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden
(2022); Middle East Institute, Washington DC (2022); Fondation CDG, Rabat (2021); Musée
National de la Photographie, Rabat (2021); Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden,
Casablanca (2020); Casa Arabe, Madrid (2018); Fundaciòn Tres
Culturas del Mediterràneo, Sevilla, Spain (2018), Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2014) and Biennale de Marrakech (2014), among others.

Djamil’s works can be found in the collections of Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL).

Her awards and grants include Arab Documentary Photography Program, Magnum Foundation,
AFAC, Prince Claus; 300-year Anniversary grant, The British Council Morocco; New Narratives in
Environmental Photography Prize by Festival Photo La Gacilly and Fisheye Magazine/Gallery
(2021); and All-Around Culture by L’Art Rue, funded by the European Union.

Djamil has participated in several residencies, including Casa Mediterraneo, Alicante, Spain
(2019); IgloùParis’ Escales liées at The French Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale
(2018); Jiser Residency, Barcelona; Le Cube, Rabat; and Fondation Abdelaziz et Touria Sekkat,
Casablanca.

She has co-founded KOZ collective in 2020 alongside photographers M’hammed Kilito, Seif Kousmate and Yasmine Hatimi, and co-owns Cantará, a cultural entrepreneurship educational program in the Saharan town, Tarfaya.

Djamil was born in 1996 in Casablanca. She lives and works between Casablanca and Tarfaya.


SAF participation:
Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023)

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