These photos portray life on a tropical island as a beautiful prison
Captives of Liberty, an evocative new series by photographer Aymane Alhamid, explores the problems facing young people – from arranged marriages to being denied citizenship rights – on the French island of Mayotte

At first glance, Mayotte – a small island and French territory in the Indian Ocean – looks like a paradise, with its azure seas, white sands, dense, tropical forests and small but growing number of luxury hotels. But Captives of Liberty, a new photography series by Aymane Alhamid, imagines it as a kind of prison, albeit a beautiful one.
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