Ali Lalfam is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores identity, migration, desire, vulnerability and the unstable relationship between the body and the self. Working through staged self-portraiture, he uses domestic spaces, movement, long exposure and performance to translate psychological states into visual form. In his photographs bodies are fragmented, obscured, doubled or gradually dissolved, while empty rooms and personal objects become traces of presence. Drawing on lived experience, Lalfam approaches photography as both an autobiographical practice and a method of self-examination. His work is a blend of documenting intimacy and theatricality, capturing the tensions between masculinity and vulnerability, control and submission, belonging and displacement. Lalfam looks at the concept of the identity not as something stable and coherent, but as something continually performed, questioned and reconstructed through the camera.

Alongside his photographic practice, he develops independent film-curation, digital and writing projects, including work with the BFI, the ICA and the Freud Museum London.