PhotographyFestivals

The hegemonic cultural power of modern-day capitalism comes through as a major theme in our early work. Halaal Art as a body of work deals with the role and place…

Bamako is hot. Very hot. 70° mornings seem almost cool compared to the scorching 95° days. All the more so because the sandstorms, light though they may be, pollute the…

In November 1998, the government demolished the colonial abattoir in Accra. It was declared an environmental hazard since it stood close to the place where all of Accra’s faecal matter…

Nigeria has huge resources, but two of these stand out: a population of 140 million people and a vast crude oil deposit, located in the deep waters of the Delta,…

This series focuses on the ravaged tons of wood transported on waterways to the sawmill by the river banks, the third mainland bridge, in Lagos, leaving the environment untidy and…

The West has long considered Africa a continent where anything goes. Detritus of all kinds gets dumped there. The shipping of industrial scrap metal to Tunisia has been constantly on…

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…