Naima El Kadi
Naima El Kadi (b. 1980, Morocco) is a photographer based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work focuses on former landfill sites and the pollution that remains there. Even though this is a global issue, she focuses on specific locations in Flanders, Belgium. She produces polaroids and analogue photographs that she developed using polluted water collected from these sites. Chemical residues in the water react directly with the photographic emulsion. They damage the surface and leave visible marks on the images. In this way, the pollution becomes part of the image-making process — not as an illustration, but as a physical presence.
“I am drawn to places where nature and pollution exist side by side. These landscapes show not only environmental damage, but also a hidden and often silenced history.”
Naïma El Kadi is a Moroccan-born photographer based in Antwerp whose analogue and polaroid works explore the hidden traces of pollution in former landfill landscapes across Flanders, Belgium. Using contaminated water collected from these sites to develop her photographs, El Kadi allows chemical residues to physically alter the image surface, making pollution part of the photographic process itself.
Product Details:
Limited Edition Print
30 × 30 cm | Limited Edition of 12
60 × 60 cm | Limited Edition of 7
90 × 90 cm | Limited Edition of 5
Metallic Archival Pigment Print
Available in three paper sizes
30 × 30 cm (11.8 × 11.8“)
60 × 60 cm (23.6 × 23.6“)
90 × 90 cm (35.5 × 35.5“)
Signed, numbered & titled in pencil verso
Unframed (Please note, framed image is for demonstration purposes only)
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