Mourad Fedouache Named Second Martha Cooper Scholar, Develops Berlin Project

Key facts

• Mourad Fedouache is the second recipient of the Martha Cooper Scholarship for documentary photography.
• The scholarship is administered by Stiftung Berliner Leben within its Fresh A.I.R. artist-residency program.
• The 2026 scholarship runs from February through November.
• The theme for the second scholarship cycle is 'Future Visions: Artistic Approaches to Peace.'
• Fedouache was born in Morocco in 2000 and raised in Douar Chanti, Sidi Yahya El Gharb, near Kénitra.
• He started taking photographs in 2017 while working as a vendor in the local market, using a mobile phone.
• His work appeared in Sourtna, the inaugural group exhibition at Morocco's National Photography Museum in Rabat in 2020.
• He won the photography competition Dream Artist on Morocco's 2M television channel in late 2022.
• His first solo exhibition, From Douar Shanty to New York, was at the American Arts Center in Casablanca in spring 2023.
• In Berlin, Fedouache is photographing immigrant communities, marches, neighborhood businesses, public transportation, and street encounters.