Authors

Bruno Boudjelal and Abdo Shanan

Bruno Boudjelal is a Franco-Algerian, born in 1961 in Montreuil. He lives near Paris. As a Frenchman of Algerian origins, photography for Bruno Boudjelal is a lifestyle in which he endlessly questions his own identity and confronts us with our own. When his father decided to return to Algeria, he went with him and began to uncover a country, a family, landscapes that spoke to him, a world scarred by violence and individuals whose conversations forced him to question his sense of self. Creating both a diary and testimony, Boudjelal travelled Algeria for ten years. He used both black and white and colour and became increasingly aware of his subjective point of view; one marked by his personal history but curious enough to bring daily life into perspective. When his travels in Algeria were over, he structured his experiences in the form of an exhibition, a projection and a book, and then decided to concentrate on Africa. Stretched between two continents and two cultures, he is nothing less than generous and shows his capacity to understand and transcribe the complex problems between North and South. 


Bruno on 
Agence VU: 
https://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=10 

Abdo Shanan was born in 1982 in Oran, Algeria to a Sudanese father and an Algerian mother. Abdo studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Sirte, Libya until 2006. In 2012, he undertook an internship at Magnum Photos Paris, which gave him the opportunity to reflect on his photographic approach and make his first story for the magazine 'Rukh'. His photographs have been published by a number of printed and online magazines as well as by newspapers. In 2015, he received a nomination for Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, and in 2016 his series 'Diary: Exile' was selected by the Addis Fotofest. Abdo in 2019 won The CAP Prize(Contemporary African Photography) for his ongoing project “Dry”, in the same year he is selected for Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo.

ARTICLES BY Bruno Boudjelal and Abdo Shanan

  • The Algerian Family

    The Algerian Family

    “Revolution is mankind's way of life today. This is the age of revolution; the 'age of indifference' is gone forever. But the latter age paved the way for today; for the great masses of mankind, while still suffering the greatest oppression and the g..