| LC control no. | no2019093969 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Alaoui, Leila, 1982-2016 |
| Associated country | Morocco |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Located | Marrakech (Morocco) |
| Birth date | 1982-07-10 |
| Death date | 2016-01-18 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers |
| Found in | Sahara, mondes connectés, 2019: page 11 (Leila Alaoui, artist, killed in 2016 in an attack in Ouagadougou) Wikipedia, June 26, 2019 (Leila Alaoui; born 10 July 1982, Paris, France; died 18 January 2016, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, age 33; French and Moroccan nationality; Moroccan father, French mother; grew up in Marrakesh, Morocco; studied photography at City University of New York, returned to Morocco in 2008; she focused in her work on social and national realities of cultural identity and diversity, migration and displacement; one of her common techniques was to set up a portable studio in a public place and invite passers-by to be photographed; art critics described her work as "post-Oriental"; in 2013 she created a video installation, "Crossings", describing journeys of Moroccans traveling to Europe; in 2015 she completed a photographic assignment, "Everyday Heroes of Syria", in Lebanon, Jordan, and Irqe, focusing on Syrians living in refugee settlements; hired by UN Women and Amnesty International to work on a photo assignment on women's rights in Burkina Faso; during her first week there, on January 16, 2016, she was wounded while sitting in a car outside the Cappuccino cafe when gunmen attacked it and the Splendid Hotel; she died in the hospital of a heart attack three days later; the 6th Marrakech Biennale (2016) was dedicated to her memory, as well as the 2nd Photography Biennale of the contemporary Arab world in Paris (2017)) |
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