PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING by Hicham Bennir

A haunting monochrome tableau capturing two women standing before a weathered rural dwelling, their expressions calm yet unreadable. The stark light carves deep contrasts across the barren ground, while a lone dog drifts in the background like a ghostly witness. The scene feels suspended in time, intimate, raw, and quietly powerful, echoing rural resilience and unspoken stories.

A quiet black-and-white moment on a Moroccan shoreline: deep footprints carve through rippled sand, leading toward a man and a child walking side by side. The patterns of the tide form natural lines that guide the eye through the frame, turning a simple walk into a meditation on legacy, memory, and the passing of time. A poetic snapshot where silence speaks louder than motion.

An old woman from the atlas Moutain Houz region of Morocco. She is the face of both resilience and new hope.

monumental mosaic composed of intimate moments, landscapes, faces, and memories. Up close, each photograph stands as its own story; but when viewed from afar, they merge into a subtle, hidden portrait reminiscent of the Mona Lisa. A fusion of documentary photography and visual illusion, this piece transforms everyday life into a timeless, iconic silhouette.

A tender yet revealing moment unfolds as an adult’s gentle hand cups the child’s cheek, offering comfort and indulgence. Her expression remains unmoved, almost expectant, embodying the quiet entitlement created by constant affection. The flash-lit monochrome aesthetic intensifies the raw intimacy of a child who knows she is loved, and perhaps just a bit spoiled.

A child lies in a wash of overwhelming light, eyes closed, mouth slightly open, suspended between play and daydream. The high-key exposure dissolves the world around her, leaving only innocence silhouetted against brilliance. The image becomes an ethereal study of childhood wonder, pure, unguarded, and momentary.

The viewer peers at a distant beach scene through a dark, organic V-shaped frame, legs forming a spontaneous natural aperture. The contrast between the textured hair in the shadows and the bright, open shoreline creates a surreal tension. It feels like stepping from an inner world into an outer one, turning an everyday moment into a contemplative visual metaphor.

A striking anaglyph 3D portrait capturing a model in mid-motion, where red-cyan displacement creates a surreal depth effect. The blurred movement, neon reflections, and dark urban backdrop merge into a futuristic, dream-like aesthetic. The piece feels suspended between dimensions, half fashion, half phantom, celebrating the experimental edge of stereoscopic photography.

A split-frame meditation on city life: above, a crowded social gathering swirls with color ghosts and motion glitches, capturing the chaotic pulse of human presence; below, pigeons quietly occupy concrete steps, embodying stillness and everyday survival. Together, the two scenes create a poetic contrast between noise and calm, society and solitude, movement and pause An urban diptych about unseen rhythms.

A moment from rural life unfolds through a partially corrupted digital frame: women gathered near a stone wall, vibrant garments breaking the earth-toned setting. Below, the glitch reveals a goat resting on rocky ground. The distortion creates an unexpected split between everyday reality and digital decay, turning a simple scene into an abstract commentary on memory, technology, and place.

Two bodies stretch into opposing directions, suspended in a moment that feels halfway between dance and escape. The top frame isolates only their legs, emphasizing motion without identity, while the lower frame reveals the tension, arms pulled taut, postures sharpened by urban twilight. Movement becomes dialogue, and the gritty backdrop turns their playful struggle into street-theatre choreography.

A softly blurred human silhouette stands in the foreground, allowing the architectural skyline of Montréal to claim full attention. The crisp clarity of the historic buildings — from gothic spires to art-deco towers — contrasts intentionally with the gentle, out-of-focus presence of the figure. The composition reverses the traditional portrait: instead of the person defining the city, the city defines the moment. It becomes a photographic meditation on identity, environment, and where our attent

A modern, intimate echo of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, but rewritten through the lens of family, identity, and origin. The photograph captures the fingertips of a son and his mother reaching toward one another, their shadows deepening the symbolism on the wall behind them. In this suspended moment, the gesture becomes more than touch: it becomes ancestry, protection, love, and the quiet power of the woman who gave life. Lit dramatically in black and white, the hands transcend portraiture a

This 3D portrait plays with depth, perception, and the subtle intrusion of the viewer into the subject’s personal space. The figure extends a hand forward, creating a deliberate tension between distance and closeness — a gesture that feels suspended between offering and shielding. The red-cyan chromatic shift intensifies the illusion of dimensionality, making the subject appear as though he is stepping out of the photograph itself. Light from the side carves his silhouette sharply onto the wall,

An abstract embodiment of Rwanda’s spirit: vibrant, resilient, and rising. The face dissolves into luminous greens, blues, and golds, evoking the nation’s hills, sky, and sun of unity. Brush-like textures echo renewal and forward motion, while the radiant sun symbol crowns the portrait as a beacon of hope, identity, and the unbreakable strength of the Rwandan people.

A fragile green sprout rises from a discarded mask, a quiet testament to survival after COVID, where life pushes through what once symbolized fear. In this intimate frame, resilience unfolds gently, turning waste into soil and memory into renewal. A poetic homage to post-pandemic recovery, environmental awareness, symbolic photography, and visual storytelling rooted in hope.

A rush of color, laughter, and movement blurs into one electric memory, hands reaching, bodies spinning, light stretching across the frame like music. This kinetic portrait captures the heartbeat of celebration, where family energy, party chaos, and childhood excitement fuse into one artistic swirl. A vibrant ode to event photography, motion-blur storytelling, dynamic family portraits, and candid party moments.

A child arcs through open sky, lifted by a crowd whose hands barely stay within the frame, an intentional disruption of compositional law. The image rejects symmetry and embraces instinct, proving that wonder lives outside the guidelines. A bold tribute to experimental photography, dynamic composition, candid street moments, and creative rule-breaking visuals.

A whirl of vibrant lines flows like molten emotion, weaving faces, memories, and inner worlds into a single abstract current. Color becomes language, movement becomes feeling, and chaos turns to unexpected harmony. A vivid ode to abstract art, expressionist color studies, emotional landscapes, and contemporary digital abstract photography.

A Moroccan child dissolves into swirling heat, the body reduced to pure color and emotion. Red radiates like a pulse, merging with soft pastels that whisper of memory, identity, and inner storms. An abstract portrait that captures the essence of expressionist art, textured painting, surreal silhouettes, and vibrant contemporary artwork, where the self becomes a landscape of living color.