Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Christian Caujolle: This is your second time serving as curator of the Bamako Biennial. What has changed since your first term? Krifa Michket : We are trying to develop something that…

Mining methods ought to be more environmentally sensitive and help sustain and retain the land in its original format without driving away or venturing into residential areas. So often one…

I retraced the route of artist-explorer Samuel Daniell, who in 1800 set out on a journey from Cape Town to Leetakoe (today Ditakong) to document the landscape. Conversations with people…

People are always – instinctively – surrounded by vegetation, but people can forget themselves, as well as forgetting the essentials. Isolated trees try, as best they can, to survive their…

Kenya’s Turkana tribe is withering in numbers as a drought devastates the Horn of Africa. In a region where little to no aid has reached the affected areas, I chose…

The images were shot both from a conceptual and from a documentary approach. As can be observed, the idea was to glamorise the images through close-up shots, ironically selling the…

Twelve ships have been abandoned on the Lagos coasts since February 2010. Over one hundred villages in Lagos State face being washed away by ocean surge from the Atlantic Ocean…