IMANE DJAMIL

ABOUT

Imane Djamil is a Moroccan storyteller and documentary photographer who engages viewers in photojournalistic projects imbued with the style of docudramas. Her works straddle the realistic and phantasmagoric.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). She is a contributor to the New York Times, Le Monde, Bloomberg and Reuters among others and has co-founded KOZ collective in 2020 alongside photographers M’hammed Kilito, Seif Kousmate and Yasmine Hatimi. Djamil was born in 1996 in Morocco, where she continues to live and work. She is based between Casablanca and Tarfaya, a Saharan town where she co-owns Cantara, a cultural entrepreneurship educational program.

BIOGRAPHY

IMANE DJAMIL I BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1996, Casablanca, Morocco
Lives and works in Casablanca, Morocco

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Awards finalists, Braga, Portugal
2024 Slow Days in the Fortunate Isle, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria
2021 80 Miles to Atlantis, CDA Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2018 Festival Traits d’Union, Théâtre El Duende, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2017 Dasthe gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2017 L’Uzine, Fondation Touria et Abdelaziz Sekkat, Casablanca, Morocco
2015 Où s’harmonisent le pin, la frayeur et moi-même, galerie SometimeStudio, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Photo Basel 2025, with GOWEN, Basel, CH
2025 Sard IV, Cairo Photo Week, Cairo, Egypt
2025 Refractions, Katara Cultural Village, Tasweer Festival, Doha, Qatar
2024 Emerging Moroccan photography, Fondation Attijariwafa Bank, Casablanca, Morocco
2024 Kranj Foto Festival, Kinosiska, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2024 Paisajes Efimeros del Sol, Casa Arabe, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
2024 (ongoing) Art Explora Festival, Mediterranean tour
2024 Grounded Being, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE
2024 MIA photo fair, Ag Galerie Iran, Milan, Italy
2023 A room of one’s own, Neimënster, European Month of Photography, Luxembourg
2023 Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023 Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono, Bamako Biennale, Bamako, Mali
2022 Who is Photography For, Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
2022 Nordwärts, La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Baden, Austria
2022 More Than Your Eyes Can See, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA
2022 Femmes photographes, Musée National de la Photographie, Rabat, Morocco
2022 Reflexión, Galeria Cervantès, Tangier, Morocco
2021 Carte blanche à Safaa Erruas, Fondation CDG, Rabat, Morocco
2021 Regards sur la jeune scène photographique marocaine, Musée National de la Photographie, Rabat, Morocco
2021 Plein Nord, Festival Photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France
2021 The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Tempus Fugit, Abderrahman Slaoui Museum, Casablanca, Morocco
2021 Tempus Fugit, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Casablanca, Morocco
2019 En Un Instante Marruecos, Bienal de Fotografia de Cordoba, Casa Arabe, Cordoba, Spain
2018 En Un Instante Marruecos, Fundaciòn Tres Culturas del Mediterràneo, Sevilla, SpainImane Djamil | GOWEN
2018 Le Maroc sur le vif, Musée de Mouassine, Marrakech, Morocco
2018 En Un Instante Marruecos, PHotoESPAÑA, Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain
2017 30 under 30 women photographers, The Popping Club, Rome, Italy
2016 La Selva de l’Art, Festival internacional d’art contemporani, La Selva de Mar, Spain
2016 Todos os géneros preferidos, all gender preferred , Manpower festival, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Au delà de l’héritage, Paroisse Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, Paris, France
2016 L’Art Engage, Le 6B, Paris, France
2015 Passages, parages, visages, paysages. Les nouvelles créations artistiques au Maroc, Musée de Bank Al Maghrib, Rabat, Morocco
2015 Emerge&See, galerie Yakin&Boaz, Casablanca, Morocco
2015 Emerge&See, Biennale de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
2014 Le Maroc contemporain, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

PRIZES, NOMINATIONS AND GRANTS
2025 World Press Photo Joop Swart masterclass recipient
2025 Nominated for the PhotoBasel x Maurice de Mauriac Award
2025 Sard IV Award, Cairo Photo Week
2025 Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack award
2024 Nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart masterclass
2024 British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch
2024 Tasweer Qatar Project Award, Qatar Museums
2022 Arab Documentary Photography Program, Magnum Foundation, AFAC, Prince Claus
2021 Beyond, KOZ/220 collectives, Pro-Helvetia
2021 300 year Anniversary grant, The British Council Morocco
2021 New Narratives in Environmental Photography Prize by Festival Photo La Gacilly & Fisheye Magazine/Gallery
2021 All-Around Culture, L’Art Rue & the EU cooperation

COLLECTIONS
Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL)
Private collections

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