When Madonna holidayed in Morocco for her 60th birthday, she visited\u00a0Hassan\u00a0Hajjaj\u00a0for a colourful shoot. Last year, Maria\u00a0Sharapova\u00a0dropped by. He\u2019s photographed rappers, rock stars and artists, and the portraits look just as striking as those of his friends, local market people and veiled women. They have all become part of his eye-popping sets that fuse Western pop culture with North African traditions (and subvert both in the process).<\/p>\n
Born in Morocco in 1961,\u00a0Hajjaj\u00a0moved to London when he was 13 and now splits his time between the two. Here, he gives us the\u00a0lowdown\u00a0on his snappy nickname, a practice providing colourful takes on\u00a0a\u00a0globalised\u00a0world, and the inimitable appeal of\u00a0Marrakech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hassan Hajjaj is known as the ‘Moroccan Andy Warhol’ \u2013 an artist, film-maker and photographer to the stars of music, film and the streets. He tells us how he works <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,780,189,188],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-artist-profile","tag-marrakech","tag-morocco","destinations-marrakech","destinations-morocco","subcategories-art","inspirations-arts-culture","inspirations-city"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n