Died in an attack in Ouagadougou in 2016, Leila Alaoui was a Franco-Moroccan photographer and videographer. Her sumptuous works revealed the social realities by relying on migration and cultural identity. Inspired by Robert Frank’s The Americans, which unveils the post-war America, Les Marocains series brings together a multitude of life-size portraits made in a mobile studio in which she traveled across the Marocco. By staying in various communities the photographer had succeeded in revealing in this work the subjectivity of the people she photographed.
