“Nina Simone at the pan-African festival in Algiers” (1969)
“When a great singer sings, the skin of space and of time go taut, there is no corner left of silence or of innocence, the gown of life is turned inside out, the singer becomes earth and sky, time past and time to come are singing one of the songs of a single life.”
Text: John Berger
Photo: Guy Le Querrec

“Nina Simone at the pan-African festival in Algiers” (1969)

“When a great singer sings, the skin of space and of time go taut, there is no corner left of silence or of innocence, the gown of life is turned inside out, the singer becomes earth and sky, time past and time to come are singing one of the songs of a single life.”

Text: John Berger

Photo: Guy Le Querrec