Leila Alaoui: A Tribute from the Editor
The novelty of experiencing a city like Marrakech for the first time is that everything and everywhere stands out like a token - not of discomfort or that of a sore thumb, but rather a catalyst to reinvention: of all that you are and of all that you are destined to find. A great photograph will too. A great photograph, can explode the totality of our world, such that we never see it quite the same again.
We often overlook the risks an artist will take for their art. Jack Lang, a former French minister of culture who is now president of the Institut du Monde Arabe, hailed Leila as a champion of the downtrodden and the dispossessed. In a France 24 interview he said “she was fighting to give life to those forgotten by society, to homeless people, to migrants, deploying one weapon: photography.”
This article appears in full in Issue 9 of After Nyne Magazine. Click here to download Issue 9.
