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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  • Part 2. Gambella city (Britney in the jungle)

    “the earliest beginnings of the world”

    “the earliest beginnings of the world” “the air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish”. Of course Conrad confused Eve and Britney Spears (cf. previous picture). In the age of globalization, the scramble for Africa seems a remote time. Remote and margins are the centre of the World!  The map doesn’t show the picture was taken in a brothel of Gambella. We just slept one night in the place because all the other hotels were full. No way to participate to the scramble for African flesh.

    Or “the earliest beginnings of the world”. 
    Of course Conrad confused Eve and Britney Spears (cf. previous picture). In the age of globalization, the scramble for Africa seems to belong to a remote time. Nowadays remote and margins are the centre of the World! 

    (Click on the map to see where we are. The map doesn’t show the picture was taken in a brothel of Gambella. We just slept one night in the place because all the other hotels were full. No way to participate to the scramble for African flesh.)

    Posted on April 17, 2011 with 1 note

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