cheb /ʃɛb/ n.
from Algerian Arabic chābb (شاب), “young”.

1. a young man.

2. in raï music, the title taken by young singers.

cheb sami is a French-Algerian-Egyptian photographer based in Paris. After a decade spent in the Middle East, a crossroads of cultures, his way of seeing took shape between languages and shores.

His work is almost entirely shot on film. He captures the interplays between shadows and lights, and the geometric forms they creates.