Is this a bike or life is a photography zine by the Algerian photographer Issam Larkat, it has been developed while i was working on my three years long term project Relizane,youth out of focus, it explores one of the many inner feelings of the contemporary African and Algerian youth, the bikes section part particularly of the Algerian youth,wherever you go in Algeria you'll find a non-official markets of bikes and motorcycles they form a sort of an unclaimed community, while most of them share the same problems in life, they share also the same love for the small wheels, it is a source of small income for some of them, and a small measure of enjoyment of stress-releases and escaping of reality to some others, it has been done carefully without any use of words and texting, a selection of 17 images that speaks for themselves in 12 spreads...
