Series

Satka, 2023

Série | Un voyage dans la Russie d'aujourd’hui : Durant l’été 2019 et l’hiver 2020, l’écrivain François Beaune et le photographe Bruno Boudjelal ont séjourné plusieurs semaines à Satka, cité minière au cœur de l’Oural édifiée autour de l’exploitation de la magnésite.

Inventaire de voyage, 2020

Crossing Africa from North to South might not be considered an original idea. Yet, many explorers, travellers (Livingstone, Mungo Park, Savorgnan de Brazza) and before them many merchants (arabs, slave traders among others) have done it.

The Invisible, 2020

« When last March the government decided to establish a curfew, I had no intention of photographing that period. On the first day, March 17, 2020, I went outside for an hour to do my daily walk. » Bruno Boudjelal

Departure Landscapes, 2013

« The Departure Landscapes were undertaken as a continuation of the Harragas project
in the coastal regions of Annaba and Oran where clandestine migrants set out for Europe. » Bruno Boudjelal

Frantz Fanon, 2013

« When I first went to Martinique, where my wife was born, I felt an unsettling attachment to the place, a sensation of familiarity. My subsequent visits made this feeling all the stronger. » Bruno Boudjelal

Movement, 2013

From 1993 to 2003, I couldn’t move around freely in Algeria and all the travelling I managed to do was limited to very specific and seemingly safe places: where my family lived (Sétif and the surrounding country) and at the homes of various friends (Algiers, Annaba, Bejaïa, Oran).

Scrapbook (1993-2003)

Between 1993 and 2003, Bruno Boudjelal created the notebooks of his successive trips to Algeria. Between logbook and diary, these booklets testify both to a personal experience and to the reality of today's Algeria.

Algeria from East to West, 2003

« ...I tried again to go wherever I could; but traveling in Algeria is, each time, a painful and difficult experience. It borders on the unspeakable. I always have the impression of falling into a bottomless pit from which I will never get out. » Bruno Boudjelal

Sétif, Alger, 2002

Benthala, The Places of a Massacre, 2002

« On the night of September 22-23, 1997, during a night of horror, more than 400 people were massacred in Bentalha. During my stays in Algeria following this massacre, I often thought of visiting these places. But this did not happen, for lack of courage or fear of not knowing what to do there. » Bruno Boudjelal