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Photography

Travel

Hardcover

192 pages

100 colour photographs

200 x 265 mm

ISBN 9782365114776

French

Jun 2026

Whilst many explorers, travellers and, before them, traders have crossed Africa, today the routes that many would like to use to get around no longer exist, due to the closure of borders, the abandonment of railway lines or their outright disappearance. Yet Africans have a real need for these routes, for opening up Africa means, above all, enabling its inhabitants to move freely within their own territories. Whilst one might think that the only people venturing along these routes are those driven by poverty to seek a better life in Europe, the reality is far more complex. Along the way, one encounters those travelling to visit their families, those seeking work, or, having failed to find any, those who must give up and turn back, heading home. The construction and renovation of transport links between different countries was notably one of the projects of Pan-Africanism – a political and cultural movement for the union of Africans and their descendants outside the continent.

Largely thanks to the support of the newspaper Libération, Bruno Boudjelal travelled the length of the African continent from north to south, from Tangier to Cape Town. He brings back images in vibrant colours – characteristic of his work – revealing unique landscapes and destinies. This book traces the route the photographer travelled over several years and brings to life the journey he had envisaged for so long. To accompany this visual collection, Bruno Boudjelal shares the stories he gathered during his encounters.

A Franco-Algerian photographer and member of the VU’ Agency, Bruno Boudjelal lives and works between Paris and Africa. Born in Montreuil in 1961, he uses photography to constantly question his own identity and confront us with our own. In 1993, he set out to trace his paternal roots in Algeria – the starting point of an exploration that would last ten years – which led him to move from black and white to colour and to embrace the subjectivity of his perspective. Regularly featured in the press and the recipient of institutional grants and prestigious awards, including the 2015 Prix Nadar for his book Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre?, his work has been acquired by French public collections and has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in France and around the world. Alongside his artistic practice, Bruno Boudjelal is engaged in a broader exploration and reflection on photography, leading socio-artistic initiatives in certain neighbourhoods, and overseeing professional training programmes and exhibitions. In 2017, he organised the exhibition ‘Ikbal / Arrivées: Towards a New Algerian Photography’, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Algiers, the IMA: Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and the Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, as part of the second Biennale of Contemporary Arab Photographers.

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