Mohamed Bourouissa

Algeria-born French photographer

Mohamed Bourouissa (born 1978) is an Algeria-born French photographer, based in Paris.^[1]^[2] In 2020 Bourouissa won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. His work is held in the collection of the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris.

Early life

Bourouissa was born in Blida, Algeria.^[1] He moved with his family to France when he was five years old and grew up in the suburbs of Paris.^[3]

Publications

Mohamed Bourouissa. Paris: Kamel Mennour, 2017. ISBN 978-2914171632. With texts by Marc Donnadieu, Anna Dezeuze, Amanda Hunt, and Michael Nairn, and a transcript of a conversation between Bourouissa and Okwui Enwezor. In English and French. Exhibition catalogue.
Périphérique. London: Loose Joints, 2021. With essays in English and French by Taous R. Dahmani and Clément Chéroux. ISBN 978-1-912719-29-7.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Exhibitions

Urban Riders, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, 2018^[7]
Free Trade, in a Monoprix supermarket, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2019. Included work from Périphérique, Shoplifters, and Nous Sommes Halles.^[2]^[8]^[9]
The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2019/2020, as part of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize^[10]^[11]

Awards

2012: Shortlisted, Prix Pictet, for Périphérique^[12]^[13]
2018: Shortlisted, Marcel Duchamp Prize, France^[14]
2020: Winner, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, an award of £30,000, for his exhibition Free Trade at Rencontres d'Arles. The other nominations were Clare Strand, Anton Kusters, and Mark Neville.^[15]^[16]

Collections

Bourouissa's work is held in the following permanent collection:

Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b "Mohamed Bourouissa | kamel mennour". kamelmennour.com.
^ ^a ^b Harding, Michael-Oliver. "Interrogating the mechanics of power in France through art". www.aljazeera.com.
^ "Photographer Mohamed Bourouissa's take on class and race: 'It's the most difficult work I have made'". The National. 7 August 2020.
^ Abdessamad, Farah (5 December 2021). "Living On the Edge: Journeys Through the Outer Fringes of Paris". Elephant. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
^ Williams, Megan (26 October 2021). "Mohamed Bourouissa's carefully staged view of French suburbs". Retrieved 2021-12-15.
^ Chéroux, Clément (12 November 2021). "Mohamed Bourouissa's staged dramas in Paris' banlieues – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
^ agence, GAYA-La nouvelle (26 January 2018). "Mohamed Bourouissa". www.mam.paris.fr.
^ "Stolen phones, British homes and wine for breakfast – Arles photography festival". The Guardian. July 5, 2019.
^ "What to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles". British Journal of Photography. July 1, 2019.
^ O’Hagan, Sean (5 November 2019). "French dogs and death camp skies reach Deutsche Börse photography prize final". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
^ "Mohamed Bourouissa wins Deutsche Borse photography prize". The National. 15 September 2020.
^ "Prix Pictet Announces 12 Photographers Shortlisted for $104K Prize". July 5, 2012.
^ "Mohamed Bourouissa". Prix Pictet. June 20, 2012.
^ "Prix Marcel Duchamp 2018 : Bourouissa, Cogitore, Tran, Voignier". Paris Art. October 10, 2018.
^ "Mohamed Bourouissa wins the 2020 Deutsche Börse photography prize". The Art Newspaper. 14 September 2020.
^ O'Hagan, Sean (14 September 2020). "Mohamed Bourouissa, photographer of the dispossessed, wins Deutsche Börse prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^ "La collection de la MEP". Maison Européenne de la Photographie. 24 June 2009.