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Salah Bouade, alias Marrakech Black and White, is an autodidactic Moroccan photographer born in Taroudant. His work is rooted in an archival practice, using found family albums, vernacular and documentary photography, as well as images of Moroccan architecture. This multidisciplinary approach is also evident in his portrait series, which aims to bring marginalised and invisible figures in Moroccan society to light, particularly through his portraits of elderly men in Marrakech – a generation of men who have often never been photographed before.
Deeply sensitive to the preservation of collective memory and narratives, Salah is also committed to retracing migration histories. During his residency at Moussem, he is focusing on building a visual archive of the Belgian-Moroccan migratory experience in Brussels. Through daily searches in flea markets and encounters with local community members, Salah collects portraits, family snapshots and administrative papers such as work permits; giving rise to collective archives that reveal scenes of daily life marked by displacement, migrant labour and the formation of new communal identities.
