ABDELHAMID BELAHMIDI

Abdelhamid Belahmidi is a Moroccan self-taught conceptual and documentary photographer, based in Casablanca. After his studies in management. He uses photography to give an artistic expression to the invisibility of his living experience. He sees art as a medium that allows us to break the chains that society places on us. Through his series « Masou9ish in the city" and "An Old Soul Calling", he highlights the reflection of his spirit, in a discovery journey of oneself in the urban abandoned places of Casablanca, in areas where the prints of the past drag on, and rarely noticed by others. In addition, his artwork "Fake" is a projection of his artistic approach, representing his experience as an employee, symbolizing different emotions he goes through, trying to overcome a living system of modernism and massive consumption. In his latest series exhibited at Sharjah Art Foundation for VPS8 (2020), Belahmidi captures in conceptual photography sequence, the feeling of isolation and lack of social contact he endured during the lockdown in Morocco due to the covid-19. Besides his last exhibition, Abdelhamid’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid (2018); L’Uzine, Casablanca (2017) and Les Nuits Photographiques d’Essaouira, Morocco (2017). Moreover, Abdelhamid is a documentary photographer. He covers the thirst of a generation for life in events as L’Boulevard Festival (2017 to 2019) and the FIFA World Cup 2018. In both ways, he transforms into pixels the message of youth, when celebrating their differences and expressing fully their identity.