ALGERIA – MNEMOSINE AND PANDORA’S BOX

Photos: ©Sabrina Teggar/phovea

ALGERIA – MNEMOSINE AND PANDORA’S BOX

Algerian Women hiding behind images of stereotypes. Wished or (and) culturally imposed.

“Better” selves. In the present. From the past. In a possible future.

15 y.o. girl hides behind an image of herself wearing make up and marriage dress. On it she is not wearing the Islamic veil her brother imposes her. On it she is free. And beautiful.

An older woman refuses to have her face photographed, and shows a photo of her younger, instead. From an age when she didn’t have to wear the Islamic veil.

A little girl hides her face behind a western doll. Foreign stereotypes. In the midst of a group of man.

This beautifuland touching triptique extracted from Sabrina’s photographic quest in search of her Algerian roots, testifyies of the condition of women in today’s Algeria. Encounters with what her own life could have been…

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