Le Voyage (The journey )

«Le Voyage» is a long-term photographic project. It seeks to show more than the geographical moves. It’s about what we leave behind to prosper, to survive. It aims to document the hope and despair, the joy and resilience, the constant waiting, moving, and frustration. In 2021, I visited a Migrant Center in Tenerife. There I had the chance to deepen the personal journey (what they call “Le Voyage”) of four migrants. They have different backgrounds but arrived the same way, navigating the dangerous waves of the Ocean. I was raised listening to my father’s tales about how he escaped the Algerian dictatorship. Today, half a century later, I’m still listening to similar stories. So, with “Le Voyage,” I want to shed some light on the life of the new wave of migrants who, like my father, escape from the struggles that the African continent is facing and about what it means to fight to survive in a foreign country, among racial discrimination, humiliation, and the constant threat to be deported. As a migrant, “Le Voyage” is a body of work that relates to my continuous fight to find my own identity and to help others understand the uncomfortable feeling of not belonging to any land.