Gambella Stories

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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.

Contact: turkairo@gmail.com

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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  • The 19th of January was the day of Epiphany or Timkat for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In all the churches of the countries, people take out the tabot (the alter and the saints), bring it into tents at the nearest river in a big singing and clapping colorful procession.

    The 19th of January was the day of Epiphany or Timkat for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In all the churches of the countries, people take out the tabot (the alter and the saints), bring it into tents at the nearest river in a big singing and clapping colorful procession.

    Tagged: Timkat Epiphany religion road Ethiopia Gambella africa

    Posted on October 20, 2009

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