Artistic Education
2015-2022: Photography course, Ixelles School of Arts, Brussels
February 2020: Online course certificate, “Seeing Through Photographs», MoMA , New York
2012-2015: Photography course, St-Gilles Art Academy, Brussels
1993-1997: Bachelor of Arts (English) Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
Exhibitions
2023, Oct -Nov : Duo Exhibition, Living Room Gallery, New York City, USA
2023, February: Solo Exhibition, PCube, Nivelles, Belgium
2022, December: Collective Exhibition: The Brussels Photo Fortnight (Zoom)
2022, May: Collective Exhibition: Haunted, Kult XL, Brussels
2021, December: Collective Exhibition: The Brussels Photo Fortnight (Zoom)
2020, September: Collective Exhibition, We ART XL, Brussels
2019, September: Collective Exhibition: We Art XL, Brussels
2019 March: Collective Exhibition: Night Shift, Ravenstein Gallery, Brussels
2018 February: Collective Exhibition: Hors-Champs, Chapelle de Boondael, Brussels
2017, November: Solo Exhibition, Habashate (Ethiopians), Bab Jaddid Gallery, Tiznit, Morocco,
2017, May: Collective Exhibition: Agadir Photography Saloon, 10th ed., Agadir, Morocco
2016, September: Solo exhibition Waremme, CulturalCenter, Belgium
Laureate of the PHOTOFOLIES, LIEGE 2016
Awards
2022: Selection for FALM (Tangier Photography festival)
2022: Selection for Marrakech Photography festival
2020: We ART XL Award (Coup de Coeur Selection)
2020: Finalist Maghreb Photography Awards
2017: Selection for Paris Street Photography Festival
2016: Selection for ESSAOUIRA Photography Nights Festival
Photographer and visual artist, Saïd Hammouch was born and grew up in Morocco. He roamed the world before settling in Brussels, Belgium, where his artistic career was born. His approach consists of using the photographic medium to experiment with its potential and so create novel visual experiences. Said Hammouch recently graduated from a long-term photography course at Ixelles School of Arts, Brussels. He is particularly interested in the visual aspect of the image where the graphic composition takes precedence over the object depicted. Above all, he tries to move away from the realistic documentation characteristic of photojournalism, to thus bring out the aesthetic and universal potential of a moment or a feeling. Beyond celebrating the graphic aspect of the subject, lights, and shadows, his work is also interested in the formalist aspect of human presence. This is how he sets out to produce images that attempt to seek beauty in environments where chaos reigns or other images that explore themes that are difficult to approach, such as the notion of “Self.”