YASSINE ALAOUI ISMAILI aka YORIYAS is a Casablanca-based contemporary street photographer and performer. He started playing chess when he was five years old, leading him to fall in love with mathematics and logic By the age of 16, Yoriyas began Breakdancing! His North African heritage, chess, and mathematic sensibilities lead him to unique methods of expressing his dance style. While travelling as a professional dance artist around the world for dance project, he discovered his passion for photography. His work are characterised by either matching or contrasting colour schemes, symmetrical build-ups, and representations of moments that seem too good to be true. ‘’I am looking for an unexpected moment which can happen only once. Through one photograph, we can possibly see, enjoy, ask questions and care more about a scene that we probably wouldn’t have noticed if it wouldn’t have been captured.’’ he says Yoriyas has exhibited worldwide where his raw and rare talent was rewarded by winning the first places in Les nuit photographique Essaouira, World street photography Hamburg, PhotoMed festival France and Middle east street photography. He has been picked to exhibit in Camerawork San Francisco, PhotoIreland, PhotoLondon festival, Rupture CMOOA Marrakech and Universal exposition Milan... His Work has been published in New york Times, the National Geographic, FIFA, Stern, The guardian,dyptik and Volkskrant... https://www.yoriyas.com/