Nour Eddine Tilsaghani

Nour Eddin Tilsaghani, Passage 1 (detail), 2018

Nour Eddine Tilsaghani is a Moroccan photographer, video artist, and educator born in 1972 in Marrakech, where he continues to live and work. He first exhibited his work in 1993 at the inaugural Printemps de la Photo at the Institut Français de Marrakech, launching a career that has spanned three decades across photography, video art, and film. His notable projects include Hammam, which represented Morocco at the Bamako Biennial in Mali in 2003; Jemaa Elfna Patrimoine Oral, shown at the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid; Écoles Coraniques, exhibited at the KIT Museum in Amsterdam; and Achoura Feux de Joie et Musique, presented at the Dar Bellarj Foundation in Marrakech and the Château de Tours in France. A prolific award winner, he has taken first prize multiple times at Morocco’s National Photography Art Competition and the International Video Art Festival of Casablanca, and received the Sony France Prize at the world’s largest photo competition in 2014. His work has been shown internationally at institutions including the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Boston University Art Gallery, and Hannah Traore Gallery in New York, and he has also worked as an educator at several visual arts schools, contributing to the development of the next generation of Moroccan artists.

Nour Eddine Tilsaghani is a Moroccan photographer, video artist, and educator born in 1972 in Marrakech, where he continues to live and work. He first exhibited his work in 1993 at the inaugural Printemps de la Photo at the Institut Français de Marrakech, launching a career that has spanned three decades across photography, video art, and film. His notable projects include Hammam, which represented Morocco at the Bamako Biennial in Mali in 2003; Jemaa Elfna Patrimoine Oral, shown at the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid; Écoles Coraniques, exhibited at the KIT Museum in Amsterdam; and Achoura Feux de Joie et Musique, presented at the Dar Bellarj Foundation in Marrakech and the Château de Tours in France. A prolific award winner, he has taken first prize multiple times at Morocco’s National Photography Art Competition and the International Video Art Festival of Casablanca, and received the Sony France Prize at the world’s largest photo competition in 2014. His work has been shown internationally at institutions including the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Boston University Art Gallery, and Hannah Traore Gallery in New York, and he has also worked as an educator at several visual arts schools, contributing to the development of the next generation of Moroccan artists.

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