Twelve ships have been abandoned on the Lagos coasts since February 2010. Over one hundred villages in Lagos State face being washed away by ocean surge from the Atlantic Ocean…
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The refuse dump at Akouédo in Abidjan has existed since 1945. The first and only public dump for all the rubbish of Abidjan and its suburbs, this site has become…
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…
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,…
A virtual image, produced by merging two different cultures, each one has its own reference. In a rather shocking approach, the film presents an anti-stereotyping statement as it dramatically portraits…
This work continues the lineage of making environmental videos, started in the 1980s by the films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi by Godfrey Reggio. They were inspired by the Hopi words given…