Fused with the poignant words of a Moroccan human rights activist Rachida Madani’s poem, Tales of a Severed Head, Her Plot of Blue Sky is a relational glimpse into the joys and struggles of a group of Berber women in a care home in Sefrou, Morocco. While the women engage in creating visual diaries of their everyday existence, many of their experiences of abuse, alienation, loss and poverty, are captured in one particular resident’s story. Like other women in the care home, Fatima too struggles to survive in a society that, more often than not, undermines women’s existence. By taking their own images, the women reclaim their power to be themselves. The images they create - of themselves and others - are playful yet harrowing, they point to the invisibility of women, non-hetero normative, neurodiverse, disabled and elderly people in media more generally.

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