Abdo Shanan: Untitled (Oran), from the series Diary: Exile, 2014–2016

Coinciding with Aperture magazine issue #227, “Platform Africa,” Aperture is pleased to present a series of limited-edition prints by artists featured in the issue.

“The photographs in Abdo Shanan’s series Diary: Exile (2014–16) take viewers by the hand and race them through a vertiginous world of gritty, everyday intimacies. Imagine Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus meeting Roger Ballen in the inner cities of twenty-first-century Algeria to produce work that none of them had the background or experience to perceive. He points his camera up to catch a shredded campaign poster or the face of a woman laughing, down to catch a splash of white paint on the sidewalk, a hand on a leopard-print coat, or a pair of lovers rolling on the ground. In Shanan’s series, there are friends, strangers, twins, soiled bedsheets, signs of poverty, hardship, and distress, as well as moments of unguarded pleasure.” —Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in Aperture Issue #227: “Platform Africa”

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.