(Morocco)

Ziad Naitaddi (b. 1995, Rabat) is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in Rabat. His practice often extends beyond the act of photographing itself. He revisits archives, collects written and oral testimonies, and even re-engages with his own photographs years after their development. He refers to this approach as “photographic exhumation”—a process that allows him to explore narrative possibilities beyond the camera. This diversified engagement with photography is also a means to propose alternative representations of Morocco and its visual imagination. His connection to the medium is deeply intertwined with his way of life: as he traverses and contemplates landscapes in Morocco and beyond, he translates these experiences into evocative and enigmatic images.