Yoriyas

Yassine Alaoui Ismaili (ياسين العلوي الإسماعيلي), known as Yoriyas, is a Moroccan street photographer and breakdancer based in Casablanca, Morocco.[3]

Yoriyas
Yoriyas presenting at the American Language Center in Casablanca in 2019.
Born
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili

1984
AwardsPrize of Arab World Institute for Contemporary Arab Creation
2019
[1]
First prize in World Street Photography, Hamburg
2016
[2]

Photography projects

He started with photography in 2007, when his dance crew, Lhiba Kingzoo, was invited to perform in Salzburg, Austria. He bought a simple camera from a flea market to share photos of the trip with family.[4]

From the Street to the Olympics chronicles breakdancing in Senegal, Morocco, Algeria, France, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Casablanca Not The Movie presents images of life in Casablanca, Morocco. These images counter Orientalist images of the city based on the 1942 American film Casablanca.[4]

In 2020, Yoriyas organized Sourtna (صورتنا our image), the inaugural exhibition at the Moroccan National Photography Museum in Rabat.[5]

References

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