“The Wind that Shakes Dreams” explores the lives and the surroundings of the people residing in Kahwet El Rih, a village in the southwest of Algiers, Algeria. An unusually high number of the inhabitants suffer from severe eyesight problems, causing varying levels of blindness for many. Some say blindness is a genetically transmissible disease, while others believe it is caused by the tiny thorns of the barbary figs surrounding the village flying in the air.

“Since I started this project, I have been interrogating myself about how popular culture depicts the existence of people with distorted vision, and inevitably, I found myself asking similar questions, do they dream while sleeping? Do they have a sixth sense? Do their other senses become sharper?” says the photographer.