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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This place has its own special light. You’re never alone here, never lost. Everything seems charged with energy. Kraftwerk means “energy supplier” or “power station”. This piece is the poetic…
I use drawings as a narrative language of expression. Empty Skies is a video animation inspired by the following poem: “I am walking alone without feats, as river water does./…
I decided to take pictures of children being taught how to plant trees, because a country’s youth is its future and there’s no future without reforestation. This series of explanatory…
For one hundred years the Gécamines company has been operating copper mines in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After all these years, toxic waste have…
A few years ago I took pictures of strolling street vendors in Niamey. The negatives remained in a drawer until last January, when the self-immolation of a similar vendor set…
After twelve years among the diaspora in Portugal, I visited Luanda, my home town. My work questions the sustainability of the world in which we live, paying special attention to…
This is a series on the Ghanaian slum Agbogbloshie. People and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives. The UN Environment Program has stated that Western…
I like to record social and religious phenomena related to Islamic-Arabic culture. Based on my own experiences, I address the issue of women, their future, their liberation and the norms…
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…