# Recto Verso

> Art, photography and visual projects, shared with a creative collective.

Association · Co-president with Luna Martin · Since 2025

Category: Creative work

[Open in the interactive portfolio](<https://zaki.somehow.engineer/#art/24>)

[Français](<https://zaki.somehow.engineer/read/fr/recto-verso.md>)

## At a glance

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| My role | Co-president |
| Since | 2025 |
| Alongside | Luna Martin |
| Focus | Art · Photography · Visuals |

## An association for art and visual work

Since 2025, I’ve been co-president of Recto Verso alongside Luna Martin. It’s an association for art, photography and visual projects, and another way for me to work with creative people beyond software.

Luna is also one of the creatives I worked alongside on Enka’s visual direction. Recto Verso gives that shared interest in images and art a space of its own.

### Images and media

[Recto Verso’s visual identity.](<https://zaki.somehow.engineer/content/assets/recto-verso/logo-with-text.png>)

Recto Verso logo: two interlocking geometric forms in black, white and grey, with the association name above and below.

Credit: Recto Verso · supplied association logo.

## A shared interest in different ways of creating

The association has brought together different people over time. My place in it is as a co-president and participant, with an interest in contributing ideas and learning from people with their own creative practices.

## A trip to China

We travelled to China through Recto Verso. The mission brief focused on exploring traditional and contemporary design practices and encountering approaches different from those taught in France.

Led by Luna, the proposed mission named Beijing, Xianyang and Shanghai. It set out photography, video, sketches and interviews as ways to document the research, alongside possible studio visits and workshops. These describe the plan behind the trip; the materials here don’t document each activity as completed.

## Where we are now

We haven’t yet had the work published or held an exhibition. The group has changed as people have joined and left, but the China trip is a concrete part of what we’ve done together.

For me, Recto Verso belongs here because creative collaboration is part of my life too: working on images, sharing ideas and exploring something with other people.
