About.

I’m Ilan Boukhari, a photographer based in Brussels, Belgium.

I’ve been drawn to cameras for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I would photograph pretty much anything that happened to be in front of me, whether it was with my mother’s DSLR or a small digital camera I was given. I wasn’t thinking about photography as a craft back then. I simply enjoyed looking through a viewfinder and capturing things that caught my attention.

My first experience with film came when I was around ten, through Kodak disposable cameras. Years later, from the age of thirteen, I began shooting more regularly with digital cameras. Photography gradually became something I worked with professionally, particularly through product photography. While I still work with photography commercially, I eventually felt that I was losing the personal side of it, the curiosity and spontaneity that made me want to take photographs in the first place.

Last year, I returned to film photography as a way of reconnecting with that feeling. Slowing down, having a limited number of frames, and being more deliberate about what I photograph gave me a different relationship with the medium. More importantly, it reminded me why I started taking photographs in the first place.

Street photography has naturally become a big part of that journey. I’m fascinated by everyday life, small gestures, passing moments and the unexpected scenes that exist around us. But I don’t want to limit myself to one particular style. Photography, for me, is more about curiosity than categories, and I want this space to reflect that.

I created this website as a personal creative outlet, a place to share my work, but also to archive it. Unlike social media, there are no likes, algorithms or immediate numbers telling me whether a photograph performed well or badly. The images can simply exist on their own.

This website is therefore less about keeping up with a feed and more about building a body of work over time. A place where photographs can be looked at, revisited and remembered without having to compete for attention.