Dirk Alvermann - Algerien Gaetano Pesce 45 tritone plates

45 tritone plates

and reaching into purity

the first publication of an under-represented voice in photographic storytelling

mainly with his mother

Dirk Alvermann - Algerien Gaetano Pesce 45 tritone platesWhen 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