Born in 1973 in Orléans, where he lives and works.

A graduate of the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français and founding member of the structure Images du Pôle, photography and documentary cinema, in Orléans. Since 2001, he has been conducting research work on memory and family. Different selections of el Maghreb have been exhibited at the 6th African Photography Encounters in Bamako (2005, cat.), at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans (2005), as well as at the Fotoseptiembre Biennial, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico (2003, cat.). The work was awarded the Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique (PKCP, 2005) and received an installation grant from the Drac Centre in the same year.

Today, he is published by L’Oeil Électrique éditions, and his work has also appeared in the journal Hommes et migrations (2003) and in La Revue Noire (1999). Malik Nejmi also takes part in educational projects. He supports the work of social workers, from setting up workshops to producing exhibitions.

In 2004 and 2005, together with the association Lumen, he organized two workshops as part of the Grand Projet de Ville in Orléans-la-Source (Ministry of Social Cohesion): Correspondances, photographic workshops with a group of women in literacy training (producing postcards to enable dialogue between neighborhoods and the city center), and Extraits, an educational survey, awareness workshops around the demolition of a building. Today, he continues to carry out various projects within PAC classes: L’atelier photographique imaginaire and France-Afrique: portraits recomposés (a work on portraiture between two classes in Orléans and Bamako) in 2006.

His work Entrada retraces his father’s journey (before his arrival in France in 1970) by following the history of the various stamps and tourist visas inscribed in his passport: Barcelona, Bremme, Dortmund, Rotterdam, Hendaye, Madrid-Irun. At the same time, he wishes for his father to write his memoirs.