19 October 2025 | Photos: Badr Bounaïlat, Cristiana Morais, Neia Art
Captured by Badr Bounaïlat, Cristiana Morais and Neia Art, the photographs from this edition convey the festival’s rhythm and atmosphere through subtle yet striking moments
MOGA Festival returned to Essaouira this October, transforming the coastal city into a landscape where rhythm and image coexist. From 1 to 5 October, the festival unfolded as both a musical celebration and a visual study of movement, light and community along Morocco’s Atlantic edge.
Captured by Badr Bounaïlat, Cristiana Morais and Neia Art, the photographs from this edition convey the festival’s rhythm and atmosphere through subtle yet striking moments. Each frame captures spontaneous gestures and fleeting expressions, with festival-goers immersed in rhythm, light shifting across faces, and quiet pauses that give the gathering its emotional depth.
Bonobo, Apollonia, Patrick Mason, Folamour, DJ Tennis, Janeret, Dorian Craft, Enzo Leep, Magda, Luca Saporito (Audiofly), Jorge Caiado, Rita Soko and Cabanne appear within these frames as elements of a wider composition, rather than central figures. Together they form a visual and sonic rhythm that moves through the festival’s spaces.
Beyond the performances, art installations, culinary moments and creative workshops extend the narrative of MOGA into the city itself, merging contemporary aesthetics with Essaouira’s deep Gnawa roots. Every image carries a sense of dialogue between the modern and the ancestral, the local and the transient.
These ten photographs invite the viewer to see beyond the stage, revealing how MOGA Festival turns sound into structure, and structure into feeling.
