PhotographyFestivals

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…

Christian Caujolle: You are the curator of the Biennale de Bamako for the second time. What has changed ? Laura Serani: Many things have changed on many levels since 2009.…

Annobon is a distant isle four miles off the coast of Gabon, discovered by the Portuguese on New Year’s Day in 1471. Its name thus comes from anno bom, or…

The road goes nowhere really. I perceived it to have a beginning in a biosphere called Betty’s Bay, with an estimated half-way at the Cymbiflora Parrot sign and finally ending…

Zantoulé Daman is a rural village in the Kola district where small-scale gold-mining goes on. Seven or eight miles further down the road deforestation is apparent, dangerous ditches have been…

My pictures are taken on a human scale, recording the natural and social wealth of Djoliba, as the legendary Niger River is known. Better than abstract figures and analyses, they…

As the saying goes, life is a struggle. And the twenty-first century has indeed fallen victim to humanity’s overexploitation of the environment. Despite the risk of creating a terrible imbalance,…

My photos show children from the Malian town of Sikasso playing roles from traditional tales. They portray animals, moving through a fantasy world that is nevertheless an integral part of…