Description
What do we know about Algeria? What do we associate it with? For many of us, Algeria is a mystery, a land known from an Albert Camus book. We also associate it with dramatic news from the media. But for some, Algeria is also a memory of youth, first friendships and first love, a place lost - in a sense, but thanks to that - also dreamed of. Such is Titus Grodzicki's vision of Algeria in his first book.
W Deglet Nour There is no point in looking for photos that we know from the news; there is no point in looking for photos that depict pain and suffering, despair and misery. Even if you find it somewhere, it's just somewhere in the background. Instead, we will be able to uncover the mystery, observe the lives of the local people and watch their daily activities. And then we will find that we are not so different from them at all. We have the same dreams, the same worries and joys. This is the Algeria that Titus Grodzicki remembered when he lived there more than 30 years ago. It is also the Algeria we will see in his photographs taken after he returned to the place where he spent part of his childhood.