Biography

Youssef Bouayed is a Tunis-based photographer whose work explores the quiet poetry of everyday architecture. Born and raised in Tunisia, he grew up amid stark Mediterranean light and the interplay of geometric forms in urban and coastal landscapes. A self-taught artist, he turned to photography as a way of distilling those impressions into images that feel both documentary and dreamlike.

Bouayed’s minimalist approach strips scenes down to their essential elements—lines, planes, and expanses of sky, so that the tension between built structures and open space becomes the subject itself. His ongoing series M liminal captures liminal moments where reality dissolves into abstraction: a solitary window punctuating a warm façade, a single angle carving the sky, a flock of birds suspended above a dome. In each photograph, he invites the viewer to slow down and contemplate light, color, and form, turning familiar environments into spaces for quiet reflection.