| | | | | | | | Ferhat Bouda
Diary
© Ferhat Bouda, Agence VU, 2022 | | | | | | Photographs and Diaries | | | | March 18 – May 15, 2022 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 17 March, 7 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ferhat Bouda
From the series Imazighen in the High Atlas, Morocco, 2016
© Ferhat Bouda, Agence VU, 2022 | | | | | | | Former nomadic communities are just one of the topics of Ferhat Bouda’s work. Through impressive visual narratives, the photographer documents the life and survival of the cultures in transition. For ten years Bouda has sought out isolated desert communities and mountainous earthen abodes, traditional urban neighbourhoods and farming villages spread across North Africa, concentrating on the everyday life of today’s Imazighen, "free people", a term many now prefer to the more familiar term Berbers. In his often mysterious stark black and white images, the harsh landscapes of Mongolia are also the backdrop for Bouda’s themes. | | | | | | | | | Ferhat Bouda: Dzud (extreme winter)
From the series Mongolei, 2010
© Ferhat Bouda, Agence VU, 2022 | | | | | | The exhibition FERHAT BOUDA. PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIARIES shows people living in tents or in sewers, families earning a living on small farms, or scavenging on rubbish dumps, travellers by camel and motorbike: shadowy silhouettes that blend into the environments in which they live. And yet they are equally threatened, whether by climate change, political conflict or for other reasons.
Diverse social communities spark Bouda’s interests in the Main metropolis Frankfurt as he often photographs punks, protesters, the train-station milieu or religious festivals. Like all of the artist’s visuals, these too question cultural resilience and the human in a constantly changing world.
In addition to photographs and multimedia presentations of Ferhat Bouda’s work, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) exhibits various diaries by the artist, with drawings and photographs, accompanied by texts in Berber, French and German. The show was curated by Celina Lunsford, artistic director of the FFF, and co-curator Esra Klein. | | | | | | | | | Ferhat Bouda: A child playing near the town of Chinguetti
From the series Adrar, Mauretanien, 2018
© Ferhat Bouda, Agence VU, 2022 | | | | | | Ferhat Bouda, born 1976 to a Berber family in Algeria, studied photography in France and Germany and is member of the photo agency Agence VU. His photo essays are regularly published in international newspapers and magazines, including Le Monde, Geo, The New York Times and Spiegel. His work has been exhibited in numerous photographic festivals. 2017 he received a grant from the Hessische Kulturstiftung. In 2020 he was honoured with the Ellen Auerbach Fellowship for Photography from the JUNGE AKADEMIE/Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
FERHAT BOUDA. PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIARIES has been supported by these fellowships.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Saturday, 19 March, 3 pm: GALLERY TALK
FERHAT BOUDA. PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIARIES with FERHAT BOUDA, CELINA LUNSFORD and ESRA KLEIN
Friday, 29. April, 6 pm: LECTURE
with FERHAT BOUDA
Sunday, 8 May, 3 pm: CURATOR’S TOUR
with CELINA LUNSFORD | | | | | | | | | Ferhat Bouda: Dzud (extreme winter), Woman collecting rubbish on the rubbish dump in Ulan-Bator
From the series Mongolei, 2010
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