Public Story
RAW
Raw presents the marriage between two unique textures, both refined and raw. The first is urban and the second is human.
An artistic and documentary project that puts the youth in front of the walls. An aesthetic, committed and documentary artistic approach.
The photographs illustrate in the background the urban textures of Algeria which are assembled and which are not similar. Facing him an
Algerian youth, a selection of non-aligned characters and different by their beliefs and cultures.
The photographic project draws its sources from documentary research, contrasting the hopes of Algerians as well as their moods in front of the walls of the cities and its many architectures.
Artistic Approach
Frustrations, taboos and barriers are the daily life of the Algerian youth. The walls of the city remain the only escape and the eternal dead end. Giving their backs or facing the wall remains the dilemma of Algerian society.
The angles of treatment of this theme are: engaged, social and semiotic.
While roaming around the city, I meet and get inspired by the different hopes of Algerians and the different textures of the walls, all in distress. Forgotten, abused, torn or even broken. I bring the two together to constitute a documentary photographic series inscribed in a current of social art.
A series that refers to a failure of the overall system of modern Algerian society and that takes up a questioning on an uncertain future and a dark vision and dead end in Algeria.
Creating through several portals a relationship between the human and urban texture. The project deals with the subject of the individual trying to realize his dreams in the middle of a city surrounded by barricaded walls preventing dreams from coming true.
Considering myself caught in this trap as a young photographer living within these walls. I feel myself going straight to the wall.
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