The new amazigh generations

Amazigh is the term with which the Berbers prefer to identify themselves, from Morocco to Tunisia.

Treated as a minority, after the Arab conquest, they struggle to protect their lands, language, culture and traditions, with the few means that the makhzen, the system, lets them use.

Traveling from Marrakesch to the villages of the High Atlas, I met or caught a glimpse of children claiming their right to education, walking tens of kilometers to reach the school, children playing on the edge of impoverished villages abandoned by young people, in job seeker. Children looking for water.

Merchant children. Children from the suburbs of Marrakech, who sell a look or smile for a few dirhams.

Project realized for the Rolando Fava scholarship, a competition chaired by Giovanni Berengo Gardin

Some photos published on PORTRAIT by the newpaper LA REPUBBLICA