Bruno Boudjelal
Photographe franco-algérien, membre de l’Agence VU’, il vit et travaille entre Paris et l’Afrique.
Né à Montreuil en 1961, Bruno Boudjelal pratique la photographie comme un mode de vie qui interroge sans cesse sa propre identité et nous confronte à la nôtre.
En 1993, il part sur les traces de ses origines paternelles en Algérie. Cette découverte sera le point de départ de 10 ans d’explorations très personnelles qui l’amènent, entre carnet de voyage et témoignage, à passer du noir et blanc à la couleur, et à assumer la subjectivité de son point de vue. Il élargit par la suite les frontières de ce voyage et de cette aventure à d’autres territoires – éloignés ou non – et témoigne notamment du panafricanisme.
Franco-Algerian. Born in 1961 in Montreuil. Lives near Paris.
As a Frenchman of Algerian origins, photography for Bruno Boudjelal is a lifestyle in which he endlessly questions his own identity and confronts us with our own.
When his father decided to return to Algeria, he went with him and began to uncover a country, a family, landscapes that spoke to him, a world scarred by violence and individuals whose conversations forced him to question his sense of self. Creating both a diary and testimony, Boudjelal travelled Algeria for ten years. He used both black and white and colour and became increasingly aware of his subjective point of view; one marked by his personal history but curious enough to bring daily life into perspective.
