Yassine Alaoui Ismaili (), known as Yoriyas, is a Moroccan

street photographer Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and cand ...

and breakdancer based in

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

Photography projects

He started with photography in 2007, when his dance crew, Lhiba Kingzoo, was invited to perform in Salzburg, Austria. He bought a simple camera from a flea market to share photos of the trip with family. ''From the Street to the Olympics'' chronicles breakdancing in Senegal, Morocco, Algeria, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. ''Casablanca Not The Movie'' presents images of life in

, Morocco. These images counter Orientalist images of the city based on the 1942 American film ''Casablanca''. In 2020, Yoriyas organized ''Sourtna'' ( ''our image''), the inaugural exhibition at the Moroccan National Photography Museum in Rabat.

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