Mustapha Azeroual

Mustapha Azeroual (Tours, 1979) is a self-taught French-Moroccan contemporary photographer who lives and works between Tours and Marrakech. His practice is grounded in observation and experimentation, confronting historical photographic techniques with contemporary issues surrounding image production, perception, and materiality. Azeroual questions tools, processes of appearance, and supports, placing the viewer’s perception at the core of the photographic experience. His research revolves around four main areas: the study of light, the motif, color recording and reproduction, and the relationship between image and medium. In his ongoing series Radiance, he records chromatic variations at sunrise and sunset, generating digital artifacts derived from landscape proportions and color structures. These works reduce the landscape to its most essential composition—a horizon line separating sky and earth—exploring universality through abstraction. Recent investigations expand into sensory perception, incorporating sound and smell to challenge the visible boundaries of contemporary photography.