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Abdo Shanan

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Biography

Abdo Shanan was born in 1982 in Oran, Algeria to a Sudanese father and an Algerian mother. Abdo studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Sirte, Libya until 2006. In 2012, he undertook an internship at Magnum Photos Paris, which gave him the opportunity to reflect on his photographic approach. In 2015, Abdo received a nomination for Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the Same year he co-founded collective220, a collective for Algerian photographers. A year later in 2016 his series ‘Diary:Exile’ was selected by the Addis Fotofest.

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2019 won The CAP Prize(Contemporary African Photography) for his project “Dry”, Winner of Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens 2020. Counter Histories grant recipients by Magnum Foundation, New York,USA 2022. Winner of The Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award 2022.

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