What do we know about Algeria? What do we associate it with? For many of us, Algeria is a mystery, a land known from Albert Camus’ books. We also associate it with dramatic news from media. But for some, Algeria is also a memory of youth, first friendships and love, a lost place — in a sense — but thanks to it — also dreamed up. This is the vision of Algeria that Tytus Grodzicki provides in his first book.

In DEGLET NOUR, there is no point in looking for photographs that we know from the news; there is no point in looking for photographs depicting pain and suffering, despair and misery. Even if you can see it, it’s just somewhere in the background. Instead, we will be able to discover the secret, observe the life of local people, and observe their daily activities. And then we will find that we are not so different from them at all. We have the same dreams, the same worries and joys. That is Algeria, which Tytus Grodzicki remembered when he lived there over 30 years ago. That is also Algeria, that we will see in his photographs taken after returning to the places where he spent part of his childhood.

AWARDS

• Official Selection for Photo Book Exhibition – APhF:19 Athens Photo Festival 2019
• Official Selection for Photo Book Exhibition – FOTO WIEN 2019

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IN THE PRESS

przekroj.pl (in Polish)
Le blog de Fabien Ribery (in French)
LFI online (in English)
LFI Magazine 04/2020 (in English)

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Photographs: Tytus Grodzicki
Essays: Yasmina Khadra, Bartek Sabela
Book design: Aneta Kowalczyk

Photo edition: Monika Szewczyk, Filip Ćwik – Studio810
Translations: Małgorzata Galvan, GET IT Sp. z o.o.
Proof reading: Małgorzata Galvan, Bogumiła Walicka

Cover: hard, clothbound with print
Format: 245 x 325 mm
Number of pages: 92
Number of photographs: 35
Language version: French, English, Polish

Print run: 400 copies including 
350 copies (regular edition)
50 copies (special edition with a print signed by the author) 
Printing: Argraf, Warsaw

Publication date: December 2018
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
ISBN: 978-83-952840-0-7