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Abdelhamid Belahmidi

@h8mid

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Learn how to see. || Casablanca, Montpellier.
Currently exhibiting at Musée National de la Photographie, Rabat — Bienalsur : Let's Play.
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Happy to be among the 100 selected for the 2025 Prince Claus Seed Award. A recognition that comes at such a significant moment in my journey, between my previous works and my next chapter in filmmaking.

Going through different stations, starting with photography then installations, performance, and video, this path is a tribute to my coworkers from my employee life, the heroes that defy the long days of struggle, keeping smiles behind social pressures.

My artistic practice is grounded in my ten years of experience as a former sales and management worker. Often focusing on mental health in the workplace, my work reflects how workers navigate monotony, alienation, and loss of purpose in routines.

Thanks to everyone who supported my work, trusted my research and encouraged my process. The path ain’t stopping here for sure. by @h8mid

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Each August, the coastal town of Moulay Abdellah hosts one of Morocco’s largest moussems. For a week, pilgrims, horsemen and traders gather in honour of the Sufi saint Moulay Abdellah Amghar. Between the thunder of tbourida charges and the bustle of the souk, photographer @h8mid captures the essence of a tradition that still draws hundreds of thousands. by @h8mid

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I am pleased that my photography / collage work "Like Iron" is alongside that of many Moroccan and international photographers and artists, under the theme "Let's Play: A Reenchanted World." The exhibition is taking place at the historical site of Fort Rottembourg, now @museenationaldelaphotographie de Rabat; and is part of @bienalsurate, dedicated to contemporary art. Many thanks to @soufianeer , and the curatorial and organizational team for building this project.

In 2023, Allae, @djebliclub and his family hosted a ten-day residency for visual artists. The theme was 'A-Rust', focusing on what marks the beginning of a new era for the internet : of course, AI.

While part of my work focuses on mass information and its impact on knowledge, "Like Iron" is born differently, out of play, fun, experimentation, photography, and chance.

Thinking about how a village like Mokrissat, calm, quiet, where sometimes, we barely reach internet, can encounter future transformations in our postmodern times, in the high rise of automatisme, human work replacement, bots and ai.

Out of all the dystopian scenarios, this series was a first experiment in making collage from photography of Mokrissat Landscape, with generated figures. Over clean seperation between human and artificial creation, the fear of replacement and absolute domination, can we think of a place for cohabitation? co-existence ?

Iron rusts. It softens. It adapts. Can we?
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Dv Images @salma_mouaafi & @h8mid
Featuring artists in residency Allae Hamioui, @khaldraji @hyero.eyz @mourad_fedouache @manale_el_boulafssahi @wafaezao by @h8mid

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I felt my feed needed space to breathe. by @h8mid

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Euphoria never misses at L'Boulevard Festival.
@lboulevard_festival 2026. by @h8mid

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Some seem me as a visual artist, others as a stage photographer, well I’m both. But not as separate worlds, @lboulevard_festival is somehow where those two sides meet.

Lboulevard is that place that built a part of me, not only as a stage photographer, but also as an someone who gets into the crowd, understands them, and sees their evolution through the years. As a photographer, the festival believed in me, and my work on the stage is always shaped by that experience.

Shout out to the photography team, and every photographer we meet there, who come and give their best so we can all visually enjoy this spectacular living experience!

w/ teammates @hichamlaabd x @chadilias
Last portrait credits to @karimlesavaj by @h8mid

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Lmoussem is so much going on at once.
#MoulayAbdellah #Morocco by @h8mid

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Some photographs sound like a farewell.
Unusual portrait of me by @marouanebeslem taken in Casablanca الدار البيضاء by @h8mid

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I love music, and I love to see people enjoying it, gathering around it, and celebrating their differences, freely and loudly.

In today’s context, on the growing restrictions on freedom of speech, I hold a deep belief in the power of gatherings to offer young people a space to express who they are and what sets them apart. I still believe in that power.

L’Boulevard Festival is one of the rare places in Morocco where audiences are granted the precious privilege of simply being themselves. It’s a culture that has fascinated me, not only as an artist but also as a middle-class Moroccan who grew up in a popular neighborhood.

All my love and gratitude to @lboulevard_festival. to the entire organization and the spirit it carries.

#Free_Koulchi taken in Casablanca, Morocco by @h8mid

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Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer !
La mer est ton miroir ; tu contemples ton âme.
Dans le déroulement infini de sa lame,
Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.

-Charles Beaudelaire-

Photography and story by @h8mid
Performance of @khalidrajie
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Chapter one : Your mirror.
-Where is the sea- Collective @kan3awd

Through the sea gate that opens, He came as a survival, a stranger to our world. Slowly, he observes, contemplates and leaves behind him that blue water. A sea all of which seems to be the origins of life in earth. As an image of water where humans follow their growing before birth.
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Thank you @polini_tlc , @nabil_qerjij , @mehyaoui.m

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“Where is the Sea? is a dystopian photo-fiction series. It tells the story of a connected society, seen through the eyes of someone who does not belong to it. A figure comes out of the water into our hyperconnected world, dressed in a simple white cloth. He walks through it slowly, facing the black shapes of screens and an endless cycle of information, and his day repeats in a loop. When he finally turns back toward the sea, it is too late. The screens have already taken over.

The photo sent here represents the figure in one of his moments of wandering. He carries a newspaper that was originally 800 metres long, an object I built by hand so that the weight of information would become physical. He is reading and unrolling at once, walking a street that only leads further inland, away from the water. It was shot in the industrial zone of Casablanca, in a place where the traces of the past were still standing when we photographed it. Those traces are gone now, replaced by a residential area.

The series of 18 photographs questions how information circulates today: published in mass on social media, flash news is mistaken for knowledge, and the thirst for knowledge has become a passive scroll. The sea in the series stands for what remains human in us, still and constantly changing. It is also the mother, the liquid we grow in for nine months. The character is played by the performer Khalid Raji.” #tsawwar by @h8mid

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Photography and story by @h8mid
Performance by @khaldraji
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Chapter Three : Empty signals.
Photo series : Where is the sea?
Collective @kan3awd

Like a sea sand that moves, he is back to where he came from. Still he the same he was?
Was the whole journey only a while?
Weird times, he witnessed.
Too much informations, too much screens,
with no hope for a meaning.

Back to where he came from,
did he really find the sea?

At the gate, it is hard to distinguish the real from the dream. His eyes are a blank film roll. Developed after he’s gone. Screened as if his life goes on.
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#kan3awd #society #conceptual #photography #conceptualphotography #portrait #lockdown #isolation #fisheyelemag #somewheremagazine #vice #fubiz #myfeatureshoot #nothinglessmag #weltraumzine #nowness #rebelmagazine #vsco #all_minimal #sea #777luckyfish #rebelmag by @h8mid

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