Caring in the face of absence
In November of 2017 the body of my cousin Fernanda was found on the streets in a garbage bag with signs of sexual violence and three gunshots. Since then, her daughter, my nice Nicole, who is 10, has suffered episodes of stress-induced dermatitis. In the same way, Ximena, a 16-year-old teenager, has been waking up […]
Racines Vivantes et Diversity
Racines Vivantes et Diversity sont le fruit d’un même regard : celui d’un photographe engagé dans la préservation et la valorisation des patrimoines culturels africains. À travers une démarche de documentation culturelle anthropologique visuelle, je parcours les communautés du Bénin – du Nord au Sud – pour capter la richesse des traditions vivantes, les rites […]
It’s All In My Head
It’s All In My Head is an ongoing, research-based multimedia project that explores the coping mechanisms of survivors of terrorism and extreme instances of conflict and cruelty in Nigeria. The project combines research, dialogues, and the fusion of layered portraits, video and written narratives to craft installations that look into the impact of these events […]
Annotations in my grandfather’s Quran
This project explores how individuals use sacred religious texts especially the Quran to preserve personal memories and cultural heritage. At the heart of the story is my grandfather, Abdulredha Dhiaa Al-Deen, born in 1933 in Karbala, Iraq. Over the course of his life, he witnessed major historical turning points: World War II, the fall of […]
The Rain Callers
Rain Callers is a long term personal project capturing the practices of the Jarawi singers, who utilize polyphonic techniques to harmonize the agricultural cycle and heal the land from its drought. Faced with the government neglect and irreparable damage from intense droughts that exacerbate poverty and social inequalities, the wise Quechua and Wanka women cantoras […]
Earth’s Frontline –Guardians of Gaia —The Unseen Eco-Warriors
This project began after completing my National Youth Service in Nigeria. Due to unforeseen circumstance, I found myself without a place to stay. Looking for shelter, I ended up spending several days and nights at Olusosun landfill, the largest dumpsite in Africa. There, I met waste miners — individuals who survive by reclaiming and selling […]
The land That Breaks
The Iberian Peninsula is a land of contrasts — where fertile soil has sustained civilizations for centuries, a silent battle is now being waged between the survival of the landscape and the greed of an unsustainable agricultural model. Where the Earth Weeps is a visual journey through two places where nature screams in silence. In […]
Sweet Resilience: Honey, Heritage, and the Future of the Chaco
The Gran Chaco, one of the planet’s largest and most endangered dry forests, is vanishing at an alarming rate. Bulldozers carve roads into its heart, clearing land for agriculture and silencing one of South America's most overlooked ecosystems. Rich in biodiversity and vital for climate balance, the Chaco teeters on the brink—its fate hanging in […]
Entangled: Human–Animal Relationships in Contemporary Europe
Across Europe, the relationship between humans and animals is in flux—no longer defined by simple binaries of wild and tame, useful and sacred, or protected and exploited. This project explores the nuanced, often contradictory ways in which animals move through our human-dominated world and how, in doing so, they mirror us back to ourselves. This […]
Behind the snow
Arkhangelsk region is located in the Northern Russia and has the most number of abandoned villages in the country. The extinction of the villages happened for the economical reasons. After the collapse of the USSR in 1992 all the farms and big factories were shut down. The youth left to the big cities in search […]