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BIFA 2023

Les Champs-Elysées

  • Photographer
    Shukri Zali

A refugee from the Middle East begging for money on the street of, what is often known as 'the world's most beautiful avenue', the Champs-Élysées,Paris France.

Shukri Zali is a Malaysian documentary photographer and graphic designer whose work extends between Southeast Asia and France. Since 2004, his long-term project La Marche de l’humanité has followed ordinary lives, cultural memory, faith, labour and human continuity across borders. His black-and-white work sits between authorial documentary, humanist photojournalism and visual essay, with previous recognition from PX3 Paris, IPA and other international photography awards.