Black and White Photography | "Youssef Bensaoud" | Featured Artist

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Yossef Bensaoud:
Youssef Bensaoud, was born in Casablanca, graduated from the Odessa I. Metchnikov State University in Ukraine. Lives and Works in Rabat.
Youssef is a self-taught photographer who started to photograph for ten years, while going through different styles.
Youssef describes his photos as a visual journey through time and space. Rather an interpretation of his own vision of the world, because for him photography must above all stimulate the imagination and evoke questions and not strictly copy reality as it is.
Youssef has won several national and international awards, so he has many collective exhibitions in Morocco and abroad.

Among its most recent exhibitions
- « Poetics of the void » solo exhibition at the Mohamed El Fassi gallery in Rabat, 2024.
- «Mother Earth» collective exhibition as part of Photographic Meetings of Rabat 2022», Spaces Expressions gallery CDG Rabat, 2022.
- «Sourtna», the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Photography, Rabat, 2020.
- «Rihla» collective exhibition in Art Space of the Société Générale Casablanca, 2019
- « Frontiers and Mobility » collective exhibition as part of the photographic meetings of Rabat 2019”, Bab Rouah gallery. Rabat 2019.
- «International Festival of Photographic Nights of Essaouira», collective exhibition, Essaouira, 2018.
- «Master-2018» collective exhibition, Moscow, Federal Russia, 2018.

Awards:
- Diploma of International Federation of Photographic Art FIAP, 2015.
- Winner of the contest of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation "Ramadan Humanity"
2016.
- 3rd prize at the International Africa Agility Competition, 2016.
- Diploma of the International Photographic Art Federation FIAP, 2018.
- 1st Prize of the Kantara International Photography Competition, 2018.

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