Alissa was born in Paris in 1972 to a Tunisian father and a French mother. She studied biology but eventually turned her interests to cinema and obtained a BA in film studies at the University of Paris VII. She wrote and directed a few documentaries and short films, and received a the special judge award at the Students Short Film Festival of Paris Dauphine in 1995 for “Botanic Instinct”, a 20 minute fiction and also started to actively develop her photographic practice. She worked for several agencies as a journalist and a creative (Agence France Presse, Euro RSCG) as well as in the corporate world where she was managing large projects specialised in new media channels. In 2003, she went to Barcelona where she completed an MBA. She lived in Japan the following year, studying and working part time and ended a world tour in Berkeley, where she lived a few months. She travelled again mostly in Asia, Pacific and South America, taking digital photographs that will later become portfolio. She arrived in London in 2006, where she worked and completed a Master in Photography at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London (2011‐12). Now living and working in New York. … Read More