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 to the titles, meaning “Life out of Balance” and “Life in Transformation”. The Native American relati...

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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 opposing styles reflecting contradicting beliefs.

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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, melancholy and impotence with respect to passing time.

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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. Many of these traders have migrated from various parts of the continent and other parts of...

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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. Thinking about the families’ photographs, and the idea of memorials and loss, I am struck by the personal sense o...

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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 of this unprecedented catastrophe, Roberto Stephenson roamed the city and its ruins with his camera. During his wand...

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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 homes and 0.5 million others sought refuge in the neighbouring countries. These photographs are an attempt to evo...

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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 to some experts, foreshadowing the fate of many of West Africa’s coastal capitals as sea level...

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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 a cemetery of detritus. Every day men, women and children live in close contact with this dump of dangerously toxic wast...

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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...

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