“We are poems in the form of humans.”

Ode-Who?
Atelier Ode is an artistic and graphic design space that bridges the poetic with the conceptual. Rooted in a multidisciplinary practice, the atelier explores visual storytelling through graphic design, photography, and thoughtful editorial work.

أود هو أستوديو فني يجمع بين التصميم والشِّعر، ليحوّل كل عمل إلى حكاية نابضة بالإحساس، نروي القصص بالصورة والكلمة .عبر التصميم الغرافيكي والتصوير الفوتوغرافي والمشاريع التحريرية، محتفين بالتفاصيل الصغيرة واللحظات الصادقة في مرسم أود، نؤمن أن في كل فكرة قصيدة خفية، وفي كل تفصيل عالماً صغيراً من المشاعر ينتظر الاكتشاف

PHOTOGRAPHY

HAIK(E)U
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As part of Mai de la Photo, Walden to Merzouga unfolded as a collective exhibition shaped by the philosophy
of simple living and inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s reflections on civil disobedience, solitude, and nature.
The show brought together multiple artistic voices around a shared desire
to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the essential.

Within this gentle constellation, the photographic series haik(e)u offered a visual whisper—minimal, meditative, and attentive to the fleeting. Like a desert poem, each image held space for silence, for breath, for the ephemeral beauty of the unnoticed. The exhibition invited viewers to embrace a slower gaze, one where art resists speed and simplicity becomes a radical form of presence.

“Something unreal seeps into the reality of the recollections that are on the borderline between our own personal history and an indefinite pre-history, in the exact place, where, after us, the childhood home comes to life in us [...] [I]magination, memory and perception exchange functions. The image is created through co-operation between real and unreal.”

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

There is a kind of silence that only walking reveals. A rhythm, a breath. With each step, the world offers itself not as spectacle but as whisper—an unnoticed gesture, a flicker of shadow, a fleeting glint of light. In these in-between moments, a film camera becomes less a tool and more a companion.

Walking is not about arrival, but about presence. A slow ritual of observation, listening, and attunement. Through the lens of analog photography, the ephemeral is honored—the way morning light rests on a wall, the stillness of an abandoned path, the poetry of a street corner bathed in golden hour.

To shoot on film is to surrender to the unknown. No instant playback. No digital certainty. Just the weight of the camera, the grain of the film, and the patience to wait. Each frame becomes a trace of something once lived, now held in light and silver.

These images are not documents in the traditional sense,
but fragments of mood and atmosphere—visual echoes of
an inner world projected onto the outer one. Slow images. Tender. Imperfect. Human.

This growing archive is one of solitude and reverie. A quiet collection of analog photographs taken during unhurried walks, where seeing becomes a way of being. Each image is
a poem of the present—mapping what lingers between presence and absence, silence and sound, memory and moment.

In a world that rushes, this practice becomes a form of resistance. A soft dialogue with the world, carried by light
and time.