In Dakar, five minutes of rain suffice to flood the suburbs of Pikine, Rufisque and Guédiawaye, which sprouted anarchically on former swamp land. In 2010, the rainfall reached the highest…
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The city of Gabès in southern Tunisia is the world’s only oasis located on the seashore. It was a flourishing agricultural and commercial centre in ancient times, as well as…
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This work creates the history of the arrival of a stranger in a land where he has come to find himself and his love. He brings with him knowledge which…
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Migratory movements have produced “no man’s lands” throughout history, but never more than today, due to worldwide demographic expansion and growing urban sprawl. My photos show some of these residual…
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One has to have experienced oppression in order to understand and savour the real meaning of freedom of speech. On 14 January 2011 and the following days, I took photos…
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The Sahara desert is not the old Western fantasy fuelled by the tourist industry and photography – a kind of archaic pause in the mad race toward modernity, a mausoleum,…
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Their lives are close to the sea, they go to the sea to communicate with God, they need God to sustain themselves, their faith and their beliefs. This project is…
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In this video, I re-animated the ancient deity Anubis, god of the underworld, and made him move through the declining urban architecture and environment of Cairo. The character probes the…
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I write photographs so that I won’t forget. Things press in on me, things howl – I remember the war of 1998. And even today gunfire is still heard in…
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On 2 February I started taking pictures of the people’s uprising in Egypt. These images show different formations of the masses, how from far away the people in the masses…
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