exiled

I grew up like many immigrant children from the 70s-80s in the Parisian suburbs in what I call the Babel Tower. Our families had left their country (Vietnam, Mali, Pakistan, Mauritania, Italy) for different reasons : political or family reasons, war, dictatoreship and/or poverty.
My father fled Bourguiba's Tunisia, boarding on a boat for France from Libya. My mother left the Algeria fot holidays that lasted 25 years without her returning to Algeria. They meet in Paris, there they got married, gave me life and chose to call me Ager / هاجر which means migration / exile.

In the curse of Life and its adventures, my mother found herself alone with us, her 6 children, whom she raised with the strength of a lioness. A strength, I do find in many women in exile. Her life inspired mine, my commitments and my professional choices.

I started photography (film black and white) at the age of 8, which gently led me to images and journalism. After graduating from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme Pro Lille-Montpellier, in alternation with France 3 National, I realized a first Tv work on the women in the camp of Calais "The jungle of the women". This Tv documentary allowed me at first to understand that the way to approach images and story in television did not suit me.
Then my meetings with the migrants in Calais, developed in me the desire to go on the road. An idea which slowly matured, when I moved to Tunis and Algiers. I realized then the difficulties that sub-Saharans faced on the lands of my ancestors even before the camps in Europe.

Today, I continue to work as a freelance journalist and dedicate myself a little more each day to documentary cinema, which corresponds more to me. Documentary is the form I want to use to tell stories and meet people.