Biography
MAryam Touzani, born in 1997 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is a image based artist whose work explores themes of diaspora, identity, and existential rootlessness. Navigating her Dutch and Moroccan Amazigh heritage, she examines the spaces where cultures overlap, conflict, and fracture, uncovering hidden narratives of belonging and erasure. Her practice uses photography and archival material to question how histories are preserved or silenced, while creating new visual languages that embrace absence, resilience, and survival.In 2023, Touzani graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation during Rencontres d’Arles (2024), and she has been selected as a FOAM Talent for 2024–2025.
Since 2024, Touzani has also been working as a picture editor at the Dutch daily newspaper NRC, an experience that has sharpened her eye for visual storytelling and deepened her interest in the editorial power of images — how they can both reinforce and resist dominant narratives.
Open for commissions and projects.Portfolio available on request.
Contact details
Maryamtouzani@icloud.com
@maryam.touzani