Aassmaa Akhannouch (born 1973) is a Moroccan artist and photographer. She is the winner in 2021 of the 26th Prix HSBC pour la photographie .
Born in 1973 in Meknes, Morocco, Aassmaa Akhannouch earned an engineering degree in France and an MBA in the United States, then worked in marketing for fifteen years. [1] [2] In 2013, to improve her knowledge of digital photography, she took a course at the Photo Academy Casablanca, Morocco, and decided to devote herself entirely to a career in photography in 2016. [3]
She works in the cyanotype process, an early monochrome photographic printing technique, to which she applies a variety of idiosyncratic processes such as tea baths and watercolor highlights. [4] She explains her approach to photography: "My photography is an exploration of memory. Through my images and careful attention to the printing process, I tell stories, fragments of memories open to the viewer's associations and emotions. Rather than an intention to document the past, I attempt to reveal the emotions that dwell in me. What I try to extract from the past is an impression, intimate, lyrical and timeless." [1] Between 2016 and 2018, she collaborated in her research with the artist photographer FLORE in the photographic studio of L'Œil de l'Esprit in Paris. [3]
In 2021, Akhannouch won the Prix HSBC pour la photographie for her series “The house that still lives within me…”. [5] The HSBC prize winners are given funds to support the publication of a book of their photographs. [6] Akhannouch produced La maison qui m'habite encore, which was published by Atelier Xavier Barral in 2021 in French and English. [7]
Akhannouch lives and works in Casablanca and the Lot Valley in Occitania, France. [3]
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