Dirk Alvermann - Algerien Image-Text and a reference for Griyeb

and a reference for Griyeb

342 photos and film stills

May 2023 ISBN 978-1-912719-41-9

In the spring of 2020

His pictures are subtle yet transformative

Dirk Alvermann - Algerien Image-Text and a reference for GriyebWhen he went to Algeria in the 1950s Dirk Alvermann was only eighteen, a rebellious West German teenager thrilled by the struggle for freedom by the Algerian people against French colonial rule. Together with a unit of the Algerian liberation army, he found a way to cross the hermetically sealed border from Tunisia into the Eastern Algerian war zone, determined to keep a photographic record of the events unfolding there. After his return to West