Photographs at M Suite Hotel

My film photos taken across Algeria now hang in the M Suite Hotel, a chic new boutique hotel beside Bab Ezzouar and the Algiers airport.

A series of my film photos now grace the walls at the M Suite Hotel, a chic property that opened this month in Dar El Beïda, on the eastern outskirts of Algiers.

To stand apart from the depressingly sterile hotels sprouting up across the capital's suburbs, the M Suite owner chose to highlight Algeria's diverse beauty as the hotel's core concept, selecting different cities and regions as themes for the hotel's 52 rooms. It's a concept I was—no surprise here—eager to contribute to.

For nearly a year, I've been working closely with the hotel's artistic team (from Al Marhoon Gallery) to select and prepare works, ultimately printing and framing several dozen that now hang in rooms celebrating the architectural, natural, and cultural splendor of places like Biskra, Taghit, Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Adrar, and more.

Best of all, my photos stand alongside works from great homegrown photographers, as well as pieces by eminent modern Algerian artists like Mohamed Belaid, Rachid Koraichi, Hamza Bounoua, El Moustache, and others. These works complement built-in architectural accents—from a multi-story moucharabieh screen to each room's unique combination of vivid tiles and and elegant wall inlays—that give the hotel's modern aesthetic an unmistakably local flair.

M Suite is one of many recent projects launched by members of a young generation of talented, creative, globally minded Algerians with exacting standards and grand ambitions. It's an honor to help them realize their vision of their country, and contribute to a long-overdue refresh of Algeria's image.

Here's a taste of the M Suite Hotel (9, rue de l'ALN, Dar El Beïda, Algiers):