PHOTOGRAPHY ALASSAN DIAWARA | STYLING MERIEM CHEBLAL When it comes to family, ‘it takes a village’ is an axiom. The phrase itself has been adapted into English from proverbs spanning multiple languages across Africa, where, along with the human species itself, the biological and social foundations of cooperative child-rearing and collective life stem. In Igbo, for example, […]
PHOTOGRAPHY FIDELIO FAUSTINO | STYLING ESMERALDA TAN | TEXT MIKEL VAN DEN BOOGAARD There are so many people for whom the word ‘home’ is as much a question as an answer. If not for true inherent nomadism, (colonial) capitalism has unrooted generations of refugees, enslaved people, and economic migrants desperately attempting to regrow roots in […]
Sitting is a love language in the region. At a majlis, cross-legged and crouching over plates of rice and meat alongside our comrades. At sunset, as the heat of a summer day recedes on a mountaintop overlooking the Mediterranean from Beirut’s coastline. On plastic chairs at suhoor in the West Bank, gathering despite all efforts […]
