People of the Sahara is a black-and-white photographic journey built over five years of exploration, from 2020 to 2025, across the vast and shifting landscapes of the world’s largest desert. This curated collection of 100 photographs intimately portrays the lives, presence, and enduring spirit of the nomadic and Berber communities of Mauritania, Libya, and Algeria.
This project was built over more than four months combined in the Sahara, often on expeditions lasting up to two months at a time, sleeping in tents without running water or electricity, relying only on our 4×4 and the supplies we carried. Life in these vast landscapes was stripped to its essentials and shaped by the numerous challanges we had to face.
The project was never about chasing people or capturing portraits at any cost. It emerged slowly, through shared time, respect, and intention. Each photograph is the result of real encounters, moments lived, not staged.
