Elli LORZ
Franco-Irish photographer, member of the Hans Lucas photo agency.
After graduating from Beaux-Arts School in France, Elli embarked on a one year project, cycling alone from Paris to Abidjan. This experience resulted in a documentary film, and her first series of photos in the Sahara, awarded the SFR Young Talent Prize (exhibitions at Les Rencontres d’Arles festival and Lille 3000).
Since 2013, Elli has mainly specialized in long-term projects documenting colonial mechanisms in the occupied territory of Western Sahara combining research, photography and collaborative writing.
In 2018 her work was awarded the Prix Mentor by the SCAM (Civil Society of Multimedia Authors) in Paris.
After living for 18 months in Western Sahara, her ongoing work was targeted by the Moroccan authorities in October 2020 within the Pegasus spyware context.
A Moroccan court ruling now prohibits her from entering Morocco and the occupied territory of Western Sahara.
This context marks a turning point and triggers a new direction in her work on the Western Sahara conflict.
After graduating from Beaux-Arts School in France, Elli embarked on a one year project, cycling alone from Paris to Abidjan. This experience resulted in a documentary film, and her first series of photos in the Sahara, awarded the SFR Young Talent Prize (exhibitions at Les Rencontres d’Arles festival and Lille 3000).
Since 2013, Elli has mainly specialized in long-term projects documenting colonial mechanisms in the occupied territory of Western Sahara combining research, photography and collaborative writing.
In 2018 her work was awarded the Prix Mentor by the SCAM (Civil Society of Multimedia Authors) in Paris.
After living for 18 months in Western Sahara, her ongoing work was targeted by the Moroccan authorities in October 2020 within the Pegasus spyware context.
A Moroccan court ruling now prohibits her from entering Morocco and the occupied territory of Western Sahara.
This context marks a turning point and triggers a new direction in her work on the Western Sahara conflict.
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For further reading on Western Sahara :
Observatoire OUISO
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Photo publications / Exhibitions
2023
L’événement photographique #2
L'OCTROI Nancy
12.05 — 04.06
2022
1ft prize, Arles Off exposition.
Exhibition at Jules César hotel, Arles.
04.07 — 28.08
Archifoto, special mention from the jury.
Screening at La Chambre, Strasbourg.
23.09 — 13.11
Vantage Point Sharjah 10
Collective exhibition at Al Hamriyah Studios, UAE.
16.09 — 11.12
2021
Lacritique.org, November 25, 2021, by Christian GATTINONI
Focus on Elli Lorz, a collection of traces in a territory awaiting decolonization
Orient XXI, November 12, 2021,
Western Sahara. Morocco is fishing in troubled waters, the European Union is financing
Libération, November 18, 2021, by Célian Macé,
The census list, buried mirage of Sahrawi hopes
Libération, October 20, 2021, by Célian Macé,
In Western Sahara, the guerrillas who refused to grow old
Le Temps, July 23, 2021, by Simon Petite
Geneva also worries about Moroccan government espionage
Libération, July 22, 2021, by Célian Macé,
Western Sahara : UN peacekeepers awaiting in the sand
# Grant from the TRAVERSÉES support program, March 2021,
coordinated by the CIPAC, the FRAAP, the Réseau Diagonal.
2020
Western Sahara Ressource Watch, Novembre 2020, report Above the law
2019
Occupied breathing
# Creation grant, Drac Rhône-Alpes (regional cultural affairs), March 2019
Identities in construction
◊ Gallery Ex-Nihilo (Grenoble, France).
◊ Festival Fotografico Europeo (Italy).
2018
Occupied breathing
# Mentor Prize, creation grant supported by FreeLens and the Scam (Civil Society of Multimedia Authors)
Identities in construction
# Coup de coeur, Visa de l’ANI portfolio reviews,
Visa pour l'image festival, Perpignan.
# Coup de coeur, portfolio reviews,
Manifesto festival, Toulouse.
# Finalist, festival InCadaqués, Spain.
2014
Signposting in the Sahara
# SFR Young Talent Prize
◊ Exibitions : Rencontres d’Arles, and Lille 3000.
Festival catalog, Parade.