Gambella Stories

"Gambella stories" presents words and pictures collected in and about Gambella, a remote place on the Ethiopian border with Southern Sudan. A place entangled with wars, failed dreams of reason and casualities of unproductive globalisation.

"Gambella Stories" is not a proper documentary or an essay but a thoughtful daydream. The disconnection between pictures and texts tries to reflect the disjunction between the apparent quietness of the place and the concealed ongoing dynamics of violence.

The narratives parrallels Conrad's Heart of Darkness sarcasms: going down a river, searching for light in the Heart of Darkness.

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All pictures and texts: ©turkairo, 2008 and 2009
Do not use without my authorisation.
Quotations ©Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, London, Penguin Books, 2000 for the present edition.

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Each station should be a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade of course but also for humanising, improving, instructing.
-Conceive you -that ass! And he wants to be a manager! No it’s -”
Here he got choked by excessive indignation, and I lifted my head the least a bit.

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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Posted on October 21, 2009

Gambella Stories

Each station should be a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade of course but also for humanising, improving, instructing. -Conceive you -that ass! And he wants to be a manager! No it’s -” Here he got choked by excessive indignation, and I lifted my head the least a bit.

Each station should be a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade of course but also for humanising, improving, instructing.
-Conceive you -that ass! And he wants to be a manager! No it’s -”
Here he got choked by excessive indignation, and I lifted my head the least a bit.