Meet Guadeloupean singer, songwriter & musician, Erik Pédurand I remember when I first set foot in Jamaica in 2008. Amidst raging sound systems, ardent tropical moisture, languid clamor and familiarity, I felt strangely at home and foreign all at once. But the feeling of being lost in translation did not come from the newness or…Read more »
Category: Encounters
El Marto Rising: Meet Burkinabé illustrator and street artist whose political activism was rekindled in Berlin
To those who think and say that what is past is past and that it is a waste of time and energy to dwell on reparations, restitutions and repercussions (!), we say that there is no such thing as the past when it comes to colonialism and its revolting consequences. There is no such thing…Read more »
Portrait of a Different Kind: Meet Makhúkhú Molepo, South African Architect and Photographer
There is something raw, but also fragile in the eyes of Makhúkhú Molepo. Khú, as he also likes to be called, first told me that he understands photography through architecture and that his fascination with the latter comes from his intent studying of light when captured in the brevity of the moment. It is the…Read more »