I was born in Alger la Blanche — Algiers, the luminous capital of Algeria — a city immortalised in literature, opera, and cinema. Famously evoked in Albert Camus’s novel L’Étranger, celebrated in Gioachino Rossini’s opera An Italian in Algiers, and powerfully portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of Algiers (La Bataille d’Alger).
I grew up between a Christian nursery school and a Quranic school, a duality that shaped my sensitivity to culture, contrast, and nuance from an early age.
At 24, after four intense years of study, I began my career as a news broadcast coordinator for Algerian TV. That path led me to collaborations with Eurovision and Arabvision, and eventually to a growing passion for film history and visual storytelling. I ran a cinema and poetry club in Algiers, wrote and edited documentaries, and worked on projects ranging from global conflict to disability rights.
After nearly a decade in Poland, I settled in Barcelona in 2001 — a city I first fell in love with while working at the 1992 Olympic Games. I later earned a Master's degree in Photojournalism and co-founded a casting studio that’s supported major Spanish film productions.
My work spans photography, documentary filmmaking, and audiovisual journalism across Spain, Ireland, Poland, and Algeria.
In 2023, the l'Alternativa Film Festival (CCCB Barcelona) featured two of my experimental short films — Barcelona, the Night Before and Waves of Silence.
Today, I continue to explore stories at the edge of memory, culture, and transformation blending journalism with poetic reflection, and image with silence.
Nationality SPAIN, ALGERIA
YEAR OF BIRTH 1964
Education and Training
Dates 2010 AMSTERDAM
Qualification Awarded SHOOTING INTERVIEWS
Institution
BBC OPERATIONAL TRAINING IN HIGH DEFINITION CAMERAS
Dates 2009 - MADRID
Qualification Awarded DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY & CAMERA OPERATOR
Institution
CEV Escuela Superior de Comunicación Imagen y Sonido
Dates 2009 - LIÈGE
Qualification Awarded MULTI-CAMERA IP DIRECTOR
Institution
EVS OPERATIONAL TRAINING BELGIUM
Dates 2006 - BARCELONA
Qualification Awarded MASTER IN PHOTOJOURNALISM
Institution
UAB UNVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARECLONA
Dates 2005 - BARCELONA
Qualification Awarded BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
Institution
IEFC Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya
Dates 1988 - ALGIERS
Qualification Awarded DEGREE IN BROADCASTING & POST PRODUCTION
Institution