Armas Essalama

Armas Essalama
Armas Essalama

Armas Essalama

Taken in Tarfaya
Photo from series 80 Miles to Atlantis on the coast of Tarfaya, a town in the South of Morocco.The plan the city had in mind for economic growth was tourism. A ferry line, Armas Assalama, was opened in 2008. Back in the day, Armas Assalama, connecting Puerto Rosario to Tarfaya was supposedly what would make the city another door to Africa and bring thousands of tourists a year from the Canary Islands, also generating a bunch of work opportunities in Tarfaya besides the small port business. The ferry crashed after 4 months and 42 trips only. In a lifetime of 4 months, it had become a new attraction for the locals that did expect a lot from it.

  • A3 fine art print on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre (200gsm)
  • Uncropped — check the image preview carefully to see a preview of the presentation
  • Packaged on foam-board, covered by a plastic sheet
  • Worldwide shipping

Regular price Dhs. 495.00
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Tax included.

Imane Djamil (b.1996, in Casablanca, Morocco) is a self-taught Morocco-based visual storyteller working on assignments and long term projects.Djamil's work has been exhibited internationally, most notably as part of Le Maroc Contemporain at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France in 2014, En un instante Marruecos at the Casa Arabe as part of PhotoESPAÑA’s official selection in 2018, the Biennale of Bamako, Mali in 2022 and the Sharjah Biennale, UAE in 2023.She is completing her project Slow Days in the Fortunate Isle, in which she documents the migratory relation between Tarfaya in Morocco and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.She has co-founded KOZ collective with photographers M'hammed Kilito, Yasmine Hatimi and Seif Kousmate in 2020.

The profits (AED438 / $119.25) of each print sold will be given to artists currently in Gaza and the West Bank.

Prints are available for AED495.00 ($134.77). Here are the costs:

  • Printing and packaging: AED32.00 ($8.71)
  • 5% VAT: AED25.00 ($6.81)
  • Shipping: paid additionally by you, the buyer, and goes directly to the shipping company — no profits are generated from this.
  • Transfer fees: this cost depends on the recipients choice of transfer method, but this will be covered by the facilitating parties, and will not impact the final profit value

Gulf Photo Plus has been selling artwork by regional photographers since 2013, sharing profits equally. For this sale, all profits will be transferred to the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), which will then be distributed by AFAC to a group of Palestinian image-makers — how they use these funds is then wholly at their discretion. We will publicly provide proof of transfer at the conclusion of the sale.