Tsawwar… Kamal Daghmoumi
"This photograph was taken in January 2025 in Fahs Lamhar, a village in northern Morocco, on expired 35 mm film. Fahs Lamhar lies just outside Fahs Anjra, where both sides of my family originate. I spent much of my childhood in the Jbala region, returning every summer to landscapes shaped by the Rif Mountains. Those memories continue to influence the way I photograph today.
I'm drawn to spaces that seem suspended between presence and absence. Sometimes people appear in my photographs, but they are often turned away, reduced to small figures within a larger landscape, or replaced entirely by traces that suggest they were once there. Working with expired film adds another layer to that feeling. The imperfections and softness of analogue photography make it difficult to place the image in a specific moment, giving these abandoned landscapes a timeless and slightly mysterious atmosphere.
Through my work, I hope to create photographs that feel nostalgic, still, and strangely familiar, as if the viewer is remembering a place they have never actually been."
Kamal Daghmoumi (b. 2002, Tangier, Morocco) is a Moroccan photographer and graphic designer based in Tangier. Working between analogue and digital photography, his practice explores liminal landscapes, memory, and traces of human presence. Through photographs that blur the line between documentation and dream, he is interested in places that feel suspended in time, where absence becomes as tangible as presence. Alongside his photographic practice, he works at Think Tanger, a multidisciplinary cultural platform dedicated to art, design, and urban research.
