Long before taking a formal name, WAH was already breathing. It lived in the shared values, deep-rooted friendships, and quiet conversations of four Moroccan visual storytellers bound by a simple, grounding conviction: the only thing we know for sure is how little we know.
Our foundational philosophy was deeply shaped by two extraordinary guiding lights: Maggie Steber and the late Sara Terry. Naming our collective Wild at Heart is our direct, heartfelt homage to Maggie, taking the title of her workshop to honor her enduring insight, generosity, and unwavering support. Alongside her, Sara Terry taught us that true documentation demands radical humility, leaving us a profound legacy of transmission and the conviction that every lens must honor the human being before the image. Though Sara is no longer with us, keeping her vision alive and embodying what she saw in us is at the very core of why we exist.
Grounded in long-term research and fieldwork across Morocco and the spaces bridging Morocco and Europe, our practice is intentionally slow. We return again and again until the camera ceases to be an event and becomes a genuine relation. While photography remains a core pillar, our exploration expands fluidly into video, audio, and hands-on DIY creative processes. Together, we work against visual disappearance the quiet, devastating process by which certain lives are never recorded and are eventually assumed never to have existed.
Because documentation has never been an isolated pursuit for us, our practice naturally extends beyond our own fieldwork. We actively engage in institutional and NGO documentation, while carrying forward our mentors' legacy through transmission and education. By designing visual storytelling workshops for children and young adults, demystifying equipment, and hosting collaborative immersions and open calls with fellow storytellers, we share our tools so communities can document the texture of their own lives. WAH remains a collective space dedicated to holding room for unseen narratives, nurturing shared humanity, and honoring every story with radical empathy.
