1854, the blog of the British Journal of Photography

There are 200 images, taken out of the 2000 Marc Garanger shot over ten days in 1960. Garanger, at the time a soldier and a photographer for the French army, would install a stool in the shadow cast by the mud houses of Algeria. One by one, villagers, predominantly women, were forced to pose for Garanger, whose task was to produce the images needed for new mandatory ID cards. Less than a year later, Garanger’s images of shamed and angry Algerian women would become a symbol of French oppression over its Northern African colony.

Link: 1854, the blog of the British Journal of Photography