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
2025, March : Collective Exhibition, Yabisi Series: Cri de Femmes Festival, Guadeloupe, France
2025 February: Collective Exhibition, VOX Brussels Photo Voices festival, Brussels, Belgium
2024, February : Collective Exhibition, Brussels Photo Festival, Brussels, Belgium
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 & Juries
2022: Member of the Jury, Marrakesh Photography Festival
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
Saïd Hammouch is a Moroccan-born photographer and visual artist whose creative journey has been shaped by a life spent traversing the world before finding a home in Brussels, Belgium. It was there that his artistic practice began to flourish, culminating in his recent graduation from a long-term photography program at the Ixelles School of Arts.
Hammouch’s work explores the boundaries of the photographic medium, treating it as a field for experimentation and a tool to craft novel visual experiences. His practice is rooted in a deep fascination with the image’s visual and graphic qualities—where composition, light, and shadow take precedence over narrative depiction. Moving beyond the constraints of documentary photography, Hammouch seeks to uncover the aesthetic and universal resonance of fleeting moments and subtle emotions.
At the heart of his vision lies a desire to distill beauty from chaos and to navigate complex, often intimate themes such as identity and the notion of “Self.” By emphasizing the formal and graphic presence of the human figure within his compositions, Hammouch invites viewers to engage with photography not merely as representation, but as an evocative language of its own.