Elyes TALEB

I’m a photographer based in Paris.

My first photographs were taken in 1994 with an affordable film camera I used to quietly borrow from my father’s pocket. Those early frames—headless portraits, fragmented family scenes, and roadside pauses during trips to my grandparents—shaped my first way of seeing. Stopping the car to capture the fields and changing weather in northern Tunisia became a family ritual, and maybe that’s what trained my eye to notice movement, transitions, and the subtle life inside a landscape.

Today, I use photography to explore how people inhabit time and space. I dive into unfamiliar or foreign environments to observe the quiet choreography between individuals and their surroundings. I’m driven by a simple desire: to belong to the scenes I frame.