For a long time, I carried the dream of visiting the Sahrawi refugee camps.To commit myself to a humanitarian cause, to capture human expressions, to tell untold stories this felt essential to me.

Discovering the camps confronted me with a heartbreaking reality: my country hosts the second longest refugee crisis in the world. Fifty years of displacement, this story began before I was even born.

The Shock of the First GlanceMy first photograph in Tindouf. The first day, in the Sahrawi refugee camp of Awserd. Far from the postcard image of the desert, I discovered a reality that unsettles—where every gesture of daily life becomes a challenge.