Tarrafal Stationery familiar to the point of

familiar to the point of obliviousness

All the images of this photographic book were taken in Morocco

Photographs by Francesco Paleari

the wear and tear of manufactured materials

Tarrafal Stationery familiar to the point ofWhen the concentration camp was built in 1936 Cape Verdeoff the coast of West Africawas a Portuguese colony. The direct order came from Portuguese dictator Antonio Oliveira Salazar for the construction of the camp to house political prisoners in the small village of Tarrafal. The camp became known as the camp of slow death. In 1949, Pinas grandfather Guilherme da Costa Carvalhoa young communist militant was sent to the camp. Later that year Guilhermes