Just as migrants are often only numbers for Western people, Africa is visualized through stereotyped postcards. This selection of landscape pictures aims to give a sincere and diversified view of the real Senegal.
Così come i migranti sono spesso solo meri numeri per l’Occidente, l’Africa è vista attraverso cartoline stereotipate. Questa selezione di paesaggi vuole rendere omaggio a una più sincera e multiforme visione del Senegal.
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The portraits of People of Tamba were exhibited on the walls of Marrakech Medina during Contemporary Africans Art Fair 2019.
Characterized by an articulated architectural configuration which combines existing buildings with new structures, Fondazione Prada is the result of the transformation of a distillery dating back to the 1910’s.
The People of Tamba exhibition arrives in the streets of Palermo for the Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo (BAM) at the end of 2019.
Thread is a Senegal-based non-profit cultural and community center established in 2015 by The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
In 2018 Giovanni Hänninen was called by Bijoy Jain to document the projects carried out by Studio Mumbai in India.
The project People of Tamba exhibition in the streets of Milan and at Fondazione Sozzani.
Giovanni Hänninen, Via Santa Marta, 18, 20123, Milan, Italy, e-mail: studio@hanninen.it — all images © Giovanni Hänninen 2021