"The Moroccans" is a series of life-sized photographic portraits shot in a mobile studio transported around Morocco. Tapping into my Moroccan heritage, I spent time staying with different communities to create photographs from the perspective of the participant observer, aiming for a more informed angle than an external documentarian might take. Rather than being objective, the series adopts the subjectivity of my own position as both an insider and native Moroccan, and simultaneously an outsider as the critically informed documentarian. This hybrid position echoes the postcolonial correction that globally conscious contemporary artists are now mounting worldwide to counterpoint the tired exoticization of North Africa and the Arab region by Euro-American artists through history.

The photographer Leila Alaoui has died on 18 January 2016 aged 33 of a heart attack after being shot in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 

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Layoffs hit both media companies as they try to keep up with the evolution of video.

As the world of online and mobile video continues to fragment, the shifting landscape is requiring media companies to be more nimble to keep up. That has led to a series of layoffs and restructurings at several media outlets, including The Huffington Post and Upworthy.

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, whose company is owned by AOL (which was itself acquired by Verizon last year), sent out a memo to employees on Friday saying the company is shifting its approach to video.

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