Historical Photo Reportage Archive
Curated collection of photographs taken during the last decades of the last millennium and at the dawn of the 21th century by the last analogue photographers of the 20th century, local and international. These forgotten stories are witnesses to history, the capturing raw human emotions during events that acted as catalysts for massive shifts in collective consciousness opening a window to a new reality, in a traumatic or a pleasant way, their lives were changed for ever. Photo reportage that expresses emotions as lived by those who witnessed it. Analogue photography with no digital manipulations. In this page you can browse the images as the day they were captured. This is our story to tell, not to be interpreted but to be felt through the eye of the photographers. We are not selling sensationalism but we are sharing our emotions.
Not everything need to be merchandised or made to please mainstream society to be part of our history. Some stories need to be told and those who witnessed it are not meant to be forgotten. This is their legacy, your heritage.
MUSTAPHA ZOUBIR
ALGERIA THE BLACK DECADE
1991 - 2001
Algeria, 1991 -2001 An unprecedented civil war called the Black Decade raged during the last decade of the 20th century. This conflict, marked by extreme violence against civilians murdered by the hundreds in reprisal by terrorists under the pretext that they did not adhere to their doctrine, Civilians were tortured and murdered to make example of and to spread fear. The terrorists claimed that their belief system was the absolute truth. The civilians were held hostage between government forces and armed Islamist groups. Nobody could be trusted, spreading distrust and terror resulting in the massacre of innocents, over 100,000 deaths, thousands of disappearances, and a profound trauma that will forever mark Algeria. Mus bears witness to this era through his camera lens capturing the resilience of the Algerian population, with an unprecedented photojournalism that tells the story of a civilisation at war against desolation. he captures the daily lives of the unarmed inhabitants of Algiers, whose only weapons were their joy and their faith. A photo report on life and love without ever feeling the impact of the civil war. Photos of a normal life despite the dramatic daily reality of a population at war against terror.
THE BLACK DECADE
1991 - 2001
OLIVIA TINGVOLL
LA MARCHE BLANCHE
20 OCTOBER 1996
There were more than 300000 people marching in support of the victim's families
it was a peaceful protest held in Brussels in memory of Julie, Melisa, Anne, Elfie and Loubna
after the arrest of the rapist and serial killer Marc Dutroux.
witnessed by Olivia Tingvoll
CHÂU DANG
Mon Vietnam
1997
Born in Vietnam in 1974, a year before the fall of Saigon, exiled in an other country at 9 years old where nothing feels familiar building a mismatched reality replenishing this feeling of incompleteness.
As a child everything is kind of a mystery and he grow up with all these blurry images that he couldn’t comprehend, his childhood was this giant puzzle with all these missing pieces.
This feeling of incompleteness pushed Chau to become photographer taking images to fill up the blanks of his past.
Telling the story of a boy who left his home and his loved ones without even being able to remember.
16 years after his exile he went back to his Vietnam revisiting his past through glimpses of his memories.
taking pictures to fill the blank spots establishing a genuine connection between the past and the present.
