Skander Khlif
Tunisia
Biography
Skander Khlif (b. 1983, Tunis) is a visual artist and storyteller working between Munich and Tunis. His photography explores the intimate connections between people, place, and memory, blending poetic nuance with documentary urgency.
With a background in human-machine engineering, Skander now devotes himself to long-term projects that reveal cultural identity, urban life, and environmental resilience—especially across Mediterranean and North African landscapes.
His work has been shown internationally in solo exhibitions, including Mediterraneo (Trier), Galerie Blumberg (Potsdam), and Archivart (Tunis). He is the recipient of the Photomed Award and the 2025 LensCulture Humanity Award and has been shortlisted for prestigious honors such as the Prix Pictet and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
Project
Land of the Setting Sun, 2022
Statement
Dakar was once the point where countless enslaved Africans were taken from their homeland — a history often overlooked but deeply present.
Today, the city is in constant motion. From one day to the next, the landscape changes — new buildings rise, people move, and life pulses with unstoppable energy.
This rapid transformation reflects more than urban growth; it reveals the heart of a continent reinventing itself through resilience and hope.
Emerging from the shadows of its past, Dakar stands as a symbol of renewal — where memory and future coexist, and where magic lives in the spirit of its people and the ever-changing streets.
