In the streets of Algiers

Algiers

In the streets of Algiers

I’ve been posting some pictures of the streets of Algiers few months ago, showing the beauty of Alger la blanche. Beauty is always a question of point of view. Here in this serie you can see the algerian capital from a different angle or under another light.

This duality is really interesting because it says a lot about Algeria. There’s always two levels of reading. Algeria is big country full of contrastes, layers and levels of life,

As I’ve said it, I grew up there and now I live in Europe, when people asks me about Algeria I always answer Algeria can be eveything and it’s opposite. It’s not just grey, It’s dark and light and all the shades that you can have from it.

You may say those pictures are not showing Algeria under her best light, that I made it more dramatic under this high contrastes and grainny pictures but I would say Algeria is Algeria.

Contrastes & layers

Contrastes & layers | El-Aurassi, Algiers 2017

Contrastes & layers

As you can see it on this picture, a man is cleaning the swimming pool of the luxurious hotel “El-Aurassi” in Algiers and just above the working- class neighbourhood. This kind of locations are like an oasis in middle of the desert. The standard price for one night in this hotel is at least a 3 months work salary.

Old buildings of Algiers

Old woman from her balcony | Cadix, Algiers 2017

Aero-Habitat Algiers

Algiers train station

Algiers from the hotel “El-Aurassi”

Buildings of Algiers, Satelite receivers, electric cables …

The great mosque of Algiers

Womand dressed in black carrying bags – Algiers

Ketchaoua mosque – Algiers

SONLEGAZ | Elctricity & Gaz national company- Algiers

A man waiting for a bus or … – Algiers

A man waiting for … – Algiers

A man with his groceries – Algiers

Racing with the bus – Algiers

Algiers heights

Birds flying over a bridge – Algiers

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Fabienne says:
9th August 2017 at 9:27 am

Magnifiques photos comme toujours.

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- Mahdi Aridj says:
  9th August 2017 at 4:34 pm
  
  Merci Fabienne !
  
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Poirier says:
13th October 2017 at 8:59 pm

Bravo pour ces photos magnifiques. Je découvre Alger depuis quelques semaines, vous savez capter son ambiance.

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In the streets of Algiers

Algiers

In the streets of Algiers

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Old buildings of Algiers

More street photography post

Berlin

ANTRE by Séverine Bourguignon

Kasbah of Algiers – photography of the citadel

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Azeffoun

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Warschauer Straße – Berlin

Protest against police Brutality in Paris

YogaGraphy

Street photography à la Goutte d’Or

Kabylia

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Street photography in Malmö

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