Hicham Gardaf’s work spans photography and moving image, often engaging with ideas of time, place and transformation. He is drawn to sites that carry social or spatial tension, such as landscapes shaped by displacement, urbanisation or quiet forms of resistance. Through slow, observational processes, he explores how environments reflect broader political and temporal conditions.

Working primarily with photography and film, Gardaf approaches these mediums not only as tools for documentation but as spaces for speculation, perception and re-interpretation. His practice is concerned with what images hold and what they fail to reveal, how they shape memory, suggest presence or absence, and shift meaning over time.

He often works with people and places that are close to him personally, geographically or historically, while remaining attentive to the broader structures they speak to. Recent works have explored informal labour practices and the politics of slowness.

Recent screenings and exhibitions include the 74th Berlinale in Berlin, Open City Documentary Festival in London, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, Frac MÉCA in Bordeaux, Centre Pompidou in Paris, MACAAL in Marrakech, Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, and MAST Foundation in Bologna.

Hicham Gardaf was born in 1989 in Tangier and lives and works in London.

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