Chasing Butterflies

While strolling down the streets of Morocco, my gaze often crossed that of young men-their faces, bodies, styles- aspects that we don't necessarily have time to look at when there are many of them . I wanted to get closer , I wanted to really look at them . In creating these portraits, my intention was to look at these men in a new way and break the stereotypes placed upon Moroccan Male. In making these portraits, I was driven by the will to hunt these faces,to isolate them into my own territory where I would observe them more closely. I live in a place where men constantly feel the need to declare their virility out loud, where woman are not considered men's equals by law. If I have made young people the focus of my photographs, it is because I believe somehow that it is the youth who are the bearers of hope and of possible dialogue, it is the youth who are curious and who thirst for freedom as much as I do . It may be that subconsciously I tried to find common ground-places without borders, an open space . That is what portrait mean to me