38:. Her father is Algerian Arab. She became interested in photography from a young age due to her father, who sold camera equipment. As a young child she would often receive cheap cameras as presents, and by the time she was a teenager she began combining her loves of music and photography. Medjber would often attend gigs at the Temple Bar Music Centre in
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