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Annaba lies in eastern Algeria, near the Tunisian border. Marie-Noëlle Boutin visited the city several times between 2012 and 2013 to photograph young Algerians there. She initially went to the Badji Mokhtar University campus in Sidi Amar, a town on the outskirts of Annaba. The young people there have taken possession of the campus's green areas and turned them into places of freedom where they can meet up, boys and girls alike, and live out their love affairs undisturbed by what society might think. It is a haven of peace, where the students seem to live their youthfulness to the full.
On her second trip, Marie-Noëlle Boutin sought to capture the atmosphere in the city of Annaba. The difficulties of shooting, connected with having to request the authorities' permission to take photographs, obliged her to wander around the city's perimeter. These are the very places where young people go when they want to escape the weight of Algerian society, anchored in its archaic traditions.
Between a desire for freedom and repressed frustration, young Algerians aspire to a more serene future. In Annaba, facing out to sea, each of them projects their hopes.

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Annaba lies in eastern Algeria, near the Tunisian border. Marie-Noëlle Boutin visited the city several times between 2012 and 2013 to photograph young Algerians there. She initially went to the Badji Mokhtar University campus in Sidi Amar, a town on the outskirts of Annaba. The young people there have taken possession of the campus's green areas and turned them into places of freedom where they can meet up, boys and girls alike, and live out their love affairs undisturbed by what society might think. It is a haven of peace, where the students seem to live their youthfulness to the full.
On her second trip, Marie-Noëlle Boutin sought to capture the atmosphere in the city of Annaba. The difficulties of shooting, connected with having to request the authorities' permission to take photographs, obliged her to wander around the city's perimeter. These are the very places where young people go when they want to escape the weight of Algerian society, anchored in its archaic traditions.
Between a desire for freedom and repressed frustration, young Algerians aspire to a more serene future. In Annaba, facing out to sea, each of them projects their hopes.

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