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Bella foto (good shot)

If you want you can add it into the

Picture at an Exhibition group

Surely post outbreak of WW1 in 1914?

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

I like the way this scene is observed by the photographer. He is an outsider and obviously keeps his distance but the distance is physical, not emotional. What also fascinates me, is the backdrop of floating letters on the stage truck 'canvas'.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New Directions, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

I love the little kid playing nearby, unaware that these women were scorned by society.

What I find interesting is how looking at this photo, if you were not given the context, you might think it has been taken last week. Unlike most of the photos from this era, there clothes are more like what we where today. Leather Jacket, jeans, even the 'girls' outfit is reminiscent of somethig I could or have seen girls whearing today.

More photos of them, all shot at train stations: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/algerian/

My grandpa could be among them. ;)

me to my friend

Yep, my grand father talked about the battle of Verdun as something that changed his life. Omar, maybe yours was at Verdun as well, you never know; they could have been buddies in some forsaken trench, ducking from German snippers and waiting for that dreaded whistle to charge ahead only to be met with mustard gas and machine guns.

My grandfather, (mon grandpere) was a French officer who was raised in Algeria and led French Algerian troops at Verdun. They fought there 3 times.