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Road to Gambella (day 2)
From Jimma to Gambella: coffee plantations, forests, tea plantations, deforestation, timkat…
Click on the picture below to see the trip on a satellite image. Then you can play with the scale and change from satellite to map, from map to relief…
“Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai… “(I always remember Victor Hugo’s poetry in those occasions)
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"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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