Ismail T-Benchekroun

It’s the chase for me really, the chase of a feeling I first got when I developed my dad’s camera, an undeveloped roll from the early 2000s that had been forgotten for twenty years. What came out of it felt like a piece of my family was handed back to me, like time had been quietly waiting to be opened.

I’ve been shooting ever since, because somewhere in that feeling I understood that I was now responsible for doing the same for someone else.

Even though it started with friends, family, or just moments that felt worth preserving, everything else around me then started feeling like it was worth shooting.

From a burst of light cutting through a gap in the buildings, to the converging lines of train tracks in perspective, the obsession widened, and little by little I started seeing pictures everywhere.