Prospère, a Sub-Saharan student, was murdered shortly after arriving in Algeria. Almost nothing remains: an ID photo, a few documents. This project begins with that void.
Rather than investigate his disappearance, I photographed and spoke with young Sub-Saharan men currently living in Algeria—students, fathers, precarious workers. Together, we imagined the life Prospère never got to live.
Portraits, everyday gestures, and transitory places are accompanied by typed dialogues from these encounters. They are not testimonies but projections: what absence allows us to invent, displace, or inhabit.
The project weaves a speculative narrative grounded in reality. The image becomes a quiet act of reparation—not to reconstruct a past, but to give form to what was prevented
