Achraf Baznani
Achraf Baznani (born 1 January 1979) is a Moroccan artist, filmmaker and photographer.[1] He was born in Marrakesh.[2][3]
Biography
[change | change source]Baznani got started in photography by chance. He received a Kodak Ektra Compact 250 camera for his birthday as a teen.[2] Baznani is self-taught and has never taken photography classes.[4] He has made several short films and documentaries. These include "Walk" in 2006 and "The Forgotten" in 2007. "The Immigrant" in 2007 received several national and international awards.[5]
Baznani is best known for being the first artist in the Arab world to publish a photo-book based on surreal imagery.[6] Both books, Through My Lens and Inside My dreams, are surreal.[7] Baznani places himself within his photographs of everyday objects, scenes and amusing situations.[8]
His works were featured in various magazines worldwide like PicsArt, National Geographic,[1] Mambo, Photo+, Amateur Photographer, Fotografe Melhor,[9] Digital Photo magazine.
During 2014, he completed his "52 Project Archived 2016-05-14 at the Wayback Machine", a personal mission which he committed to taking a picture every week in a row for a year.
Claim of plagiarism
[change | change source]On April 29th, 2015, Joel Robinson, a Canadian photographer, accused Achraf Baznani of plagiarism. His evidence was a long article, published both on his website and petapixel.com, that the Moroccan photographer used his work in a way that amounted to plagiarism.[10][11]
Although Robinson did not mention Baznani by name, the nature of the case was said by Robinson to be as follows. Robinson's originals all had a photo of himself in the middle of a graphic design of some kind. In each case, Baznani removed Robinson's image and replaced it with one of himself.[12]
Awards
[change | change source]Achraf Baznani has won these awards:
Cinema
[change | change source]- 2006: Best Director: national educational film festival in Casablanca, Morocco.
- 2007: Best Director: national festival of the education thread in Casablanca, Morocco.
- 2008: Best Director: national festival of amateur short film Settat, Morocco.[5]
- 2008: Best Director: national festival of short film creators in Casablanca, Morocco.[5]
- 2008: Best Director: the short film festival in Nador, Morocco.
- 2009: Best Director: national Educational Film Festival in Fes, Morocco.
- 2009: Jury Prize at the International Festival of Short and Documentary Films in Casablanca, Morocco.[13]
- 2009: First prize in the short film festival in the Arab League.[5]
Photography
[change | change source]- 2015: Best in the show in Park Art Fair International
- 2015: Merit in Sydney International Exhibition of Photography
- 2015: 1st Prize in B2zone art contest in Switzerland
- 2016: Honorable mention in Park Art Fair International [14]
- 2016: 1st Place Winner – Golden Ribbon in Notindoor photography magazine contest [15]
- 2016: Golden Orchid Grand Prize
- 2016: International Prize Colosseo, Roma, Italy [16]
Artistic career
[change | change source]Exhibitions
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- 2015 "Colour brust", PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
- 2015: Park Art Fair International 2015, Triberg, Germany
- 2015: Gallery Globe, Adisson, Texas, USA
- 2015: Digital Private Exhibition Louvre Museum, Paris, France [17]
- 2015: My Small World, Solo Exhibition, Marrakesh, Morocco[18]
- 2016: International Surrealism Now, Coimbra, Portugal [19][20]
- 2016: Park Art Fair International 2016, Triberg, Germany [14]
- 2016: Männer, Gräfelfing, Germany [21]
- 2016: Inside my Dreams, Solo Exhibition, Rabat, Morocco [22]
Art books
[change | change source]- 2014: Through my lens, Art book, ISBN 9781502793386.[7]
- 2014: Inside my dreams, Art book, ISBN 9781502856586.[23]
Magazine covers
[change | change source]- PH magazine, Canada, issue 42, ISSN 1924-9424.[24]
- FOTOdigital, Portugal, issue 17
- Magazine, US, issue 2, ISSN 2378-1998
- PicsArt, US, issue 15
- Mambo, Spain, special edition December 2014
- One Shoot magazine, Mexico, issue 27
- Zarah magazine, US, October 2014
- Art Reveal Magazine, Issue 5, Finland, June 2015.[25]
- Cultura Errante, Mexico, October 2015
- Artinzene, Issue 4, New Zealand, November 2015
- Knack magazine, Issue 31
- Convex Photography Magazine - February 2016, India
Movies
[change | change source]- 2006: Marche
- 2007: Emigrant
- 2009: Eyes
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Mark Go (24 September 2014). "The mind bending surreal photography of Achraf Baznani". Resource Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kaiak Wen (31 July 2014). "Surrealism photography by Achraf Baznani – part1". Kock Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "Famosos nacidos el 1 de enero de 1979". okcumple. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ↑ Rachel Oakley (20 February 2015). "Mind-Bending Photographic Art from Achraf Baznani". New Art. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Tazi (13 November 2013). "ACHRAF BAZNANI: SURRÉALISME QUAND TU ME TIENS!". illi Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "Achraf Baznani". WinterHouse International. 19 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 14 November 2014. "Inside My Dreams – A Photo Book by Achraf Baznani". JUTE Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Shelli Wright (15 December 2014). "Down the rabbit hole with artist Achraf Baznani". Bisous Magazine; LA, USA.
- ↑ "O mundo imaginário de um fotógrafo marroquino".
- ↑ Joel Robinson (April 29, 2015). "When Imitation Stops Being Flattering". Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Joel Robison (April 30, 2015). "When Imitation Stops Being Flattering". Petapixel. Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Stéphanie Jacob, L'Economiste 21 July 2015
- ↑ "Achraf Baznani: A Natural Born Artist". Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "MyPafi Participating Artists". Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ↑ "Notindoor Photography Magazine Winners announcement".
- ↑ "Achraf Baznani won the prestigious Prize Colosseo award in Italy as the first recipient from Morocco". Archived from the original on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ↑ Samia Mahe (20 July 2015). "Le Musée du Louvre accueille les œuvres d'Achraf Baznani, photographe de l'étrange". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ↑ Alaoui, Kenza. "Exposition photographique d'Achraf Baznani à la galerie 127, à Marrakech". Archived from the original on 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
- ↑ Ribeiro, Santiago (2016-02-09). "International Surrealism Now 2016 Bissaya Barreto Foundation - Particula Space". leisuregazette. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
- ↑ Elouizi, Mustapha (February 17, 2016). "Achraf Baznani, seul artiste arabe à l' "International Surrealism Now"". Libération. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Vernissage zur Ausstellung "Männer" des Kunstkreises Gräfelfing im neuen und alten Rathaus".
- ↑ Bennani, Ouafaâ. "La photographie surréaliste d'Achraf Baznani s'invite à Rabat". Le Matin.
- ↑ Menafn (2 November 2014). ""Inside my dreams" a new photobook by surreal photographer Achraf Baznani". Menafn. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ↑ "Imagining the impossible". PHmag. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ↑ "Search Results for: Achraf Baznani: 5th issue". Art Reveal. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
Other websites
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- Official site
- IMDb
- PH Magazine Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, Issue 42, pp 36–39
- Achraf Baznani: Surreal, Inventive Digital Photographs