Charif Benhelima is a Belgian photographer who lives and works in Antwerp and Rio de Janeiro.
Master in Fine Arts at the Higher Institute Sint Lucas, Brussels, and Laureate at the HISK - Higher Institue for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been long experimenting with Polaroid 600.