d a b a p h o t o 2 _ photozine
format A5 _ black and white paper Natural 90 g/m2 cover paper Natural 250 g/m2 stapled 50 copies
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The exhibition Terrain de jeu (lit. “The Playground”) addresses the street as a space of experimentation. It stands as a selection of photographic approaches to the Moroccan street. By displaying a visual journal of urban movements, a constant research of the embedded (in)stabilities of spatial structures or streets portraits, Terrain de jeu serves a broader contextualising project of street photography in Morocco. It is a pretext to elaborate a discourse propitious to trace a genealogy, to formulate and identify references, typologies, pedagogies, tracks of the becoming. Hence, the exhibition can only be understood within the larger context of DABAPHOTO: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY. This year, Le 18 dedicates its photographic platform to defending the idea that the overtly individualistic historiography of photographic practices can be nuanced. Indeed, the platform integrates, beyond stylistic preoccupations, issues like learning processes, as well as the circulation and reception of photographic images, that is to say, the coexistence of differential visual cultures. This project takes the form of a polyptych of Street Photography here and now, aiming at identifying the kind of cultural and aesthetical climate to which it complies, and, even more, the way it tells our time. Hence, a big picture of Moroccan Street Photography. - Yvon Langué (Kulte Gallery)