Aassmaa Akhannouch (born 1973) is a Moroccan artist and photographer. She is the winner in 2021 of the 26th Prix HSBC pour la photographie.
Biography
editBorn 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]
Publications
edit- La maison qui m'habite encore. Paris: Xavier Barral, 2021. ISBN 9782365112918. With a foreword by Sylvie Hugues, translated by Anna Knight.
Awards
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Hugues, Sylvie (24 March 2021). "Aassmaa Akhannouch and Cyrus Cornut winners of the PRIX HSBC 2021". All About Photo.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ Pic, Rafael (16 March 2021). "Le prix HSBC à Aassmaa Akhannouch et Cyrus Cornut". Le Quotidien de l'Art (in French). Archived from the original on 17 March 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ a b c Hugues, Sylvie. "Les lauréats 2021 – Assmaa Akhannouch". HSBC (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Bourdon, Antoine (16 March 2021). "Le prix HSBC pour la photographie 2021 décerné à Aassmaa Akhannouch et Cyrus Cornut". Connaissance des Arts (in French). Archived from the original on 16 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ Bègue, Dominique Georges (18 March 2021). "Aassmaa Akhannouch et Cyrus Cornut lauréats du prix HSBC 2021". Réponses Photo (in French). Archived from the original on 25 March 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ "Prix HSBC pour la Photographie". HSBC. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- ^ Akhannouch, Aasmaa VNV (2021). La maison qui m'habite encore. Paris. ISBN 978-2-36511-291-8. OCLC 1267334845.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Mention spéciale du jury du Maghreb Photography Awards pour Aassmaa Akhannouch". L'Œil de l'Esprit (in French). 2 September 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Valérie Duponchelle (16 March 2021). "Nostalgie de la jeunesse et du paradis perdu au prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2021". LEFIGARO (in French). Retrieved 14 May 2021.