Abdo Shanan: Covid-19 Has Put Algeria's Peaceful Revolution on Hold
Abdo Shanan
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Abdo Shanan reflects on the past year's protests in Algeria, before Covid-19 emptied the streets.
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“When I started photographing the uprising, my images were all about showing the masses, the sheer number of people making their voices heard. The resulting photos were stereotypical: groups of people in the streets, fists up, with signs and symbols of revolution. This visual representation was not true to my own experience of these momentous events, so I changed my approach to shooting with a telephoto lens, isolating individuals from the crowd to represent the highly personal and unique reasons so many of us were taking to the streets.”