Ferhat Bouda — Les berbères
Galerie du CRI des Lumières
Château de Lunéville, Place de la 2ème Division de Cavalerie – 54300 Lunéville, France
from the 25th of April to the 17th of June 2019
Since 2010, Ferhat Bouda followed Berbers’ footsteps, shut away in the most remoted areas of Africa. Thanks to the Pierre and Alexandre Boulat Prize he was laureate of in 2016, he successfully opened the exhibition “Berbers in Morocco, a culture in resistance” at the 2017 edition of Visa pour l’image Festival : an oration of the free people, remarkably illustrated by the talented Kabyle photographer.
The Berbers or Amazigh people (i.e. free people) are the oldest inhabitants of North Africa. For thousands of years they have been living on a vast expanse of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Morocco to Siwa Oasis in Egypt. They have their own language and cultural traditions, but their identity is under threat. They do not aspire to nationhood; some are nomadic, some are sedentary; there are Muslims, Christians and Jews. But leaders in North Africa suspect them of being heretics, and have oppressed them, breaking up communities, assimilating them and sometimes persecuting them. Every day their life is a bid to safeguard their identity.
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