Coastal and riverine erosion are not new phenomena on the Ghana coast. However, the pace of change has accelerated drastically in recent years, sweeping away homes and livelihoods and, according…
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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…
This is a photographic essay on the aftermath of the thirty-year war in Angola. During the conflict over 1.5 million people lost their lives; 4 million were displaced from their…
In the late afternoon of 12 January 2010, the city of Port-au-Prince and its outskirts were struck by an earthquake that measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. On the heels…
These images are of gravestones in Ethiopia. When a person dies, his or her relatives place a photograph onto the tombstone and also inscribe a short history of the deceased.…
Still Existence is a series that looks at the presence of informal traders on the streets of Johannesburg, in particular around one of the biggest taxi rank-cum-markets in the country.…
Les rêves qui naissent evokes the perception of a dream state through the simple juxtaposition of pictures underscored by a musical soundtrack. The work conveys impressions poetically shaped from solitude,…
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…