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 as a result of these abandoned shipwrecks. About 80% of the coastal zone is threatened by sea-level rise and inu...

02.11.2011[ read full story ]

The images were shot both from a conceptual and from a documentary approach. As can be observed, the idea was to glamorise the images through close-up shots, ironically selling the products on face value. But on closer examination they expose metaphorically the effects of the mania of co...

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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 to document in the clearest light possible the people and faces at risk of disappearing as a result of this seasonal disaster. Su...

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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 historic protectors, who have embarked on a crazy race for urban development. This series is a set ...

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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 brought up further stories about how animals can be symbolic of a culture. Extended periods spent in rur...

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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 sees people relocated because of a mining venture. It is of paramount importance that mining m...

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In my latest video piece, Black Brain, I deal with the misuse of the natural resources that belong to all of humanity. I question the unequal economic relationship between North and South, as well as the market for raw materials.

31.10.2011[ read full story ]

This video is a series of photographs shot in continuous mode and edited later on, before adding conceptual sound. We are here but not here. Where things are not in their right places or when intentions are wrong, we see a man dressed in a suit paddling a bicycle with much effort but th...

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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 of religion, Islam in particular, in a world that is accelerating away from notions of faith and local community – ca...

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This is the story of a road known as Route GP1. It runs along the coast from Tunis to the Libyan border, its asphalt strip following the ancient Roman roads toward Carthage, flanked by sea and olive trees. But the GP1 is a thing of the past – the highway has arrived. My photos record the li...

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