Introducing herself to photograph through her with her smartphone in 2016, the young 26-year-old photographer Fatima-Zohra Serri bought a Canon 1200D in 2017. She works mainly on self-portraits, staging herself at home.
Due to the lack of freedom to photograph in the Moroccan public space, and because of controversial views, often opposed to the traditions and customs of Morocco - her attention is focused on her domestic and family space.
Moroccan society, still in many aspects conservative, from which she is herself the product, encourages her to use photography to highlight certain issues generally concerning Moroccan women within this society: a society in which women are not free to do what they want, at least in the public space, in opposition to the private space of their house.
With humor, she uses strong symbols and more universal references allowing an identification of the greatest number, leaving overused clichés on Morocco. She shows through a personal analysis of her own condition whose portrait of the "masked" woman is already an icon of this new current of photography in Morocco, freed from the taboos of their "fathers". Motivated by the desire to get out of one's comfort zone, this close-knit practice of photography tackles themes such as loneliness, confinement or the quest for escape.
She is part of the Noorseen collective, which, composed mainly of autodidacts, shakes up established visions of Moroccan photography at the intersection between image and photography: mostly using their cell phones to take pictures; the 14 young photographers of this collective unveil their work to the public via the networks. However, the will to come together as a collective assumes a conscience and a desire of these young artists to go beyond the stage of the « simple image » to be considered as an artistic work in its own right.