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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n 2017 Giovanni Hänninen was called by Giovanna Calvenzi of Studio Basilico to continue Gabriele Basilico’s work on the three European cities with a circular structure: Moscow, Milan, Madrid.
The photographic project, comprised of 200 pictures, aims to create a typological catalogue of the society of Tambacounda.
Installation of People of Tamba in Paris, during the event Nuit Blanche 2018.
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.
The beginning of a research that aims to create an atlas that uses photography as a tool for analysing the city’s dynamics.
Giovanni Hänninen, Via Santa Marta, 18, 20123, Milan, Italy, e-mail: studio@hanninen.it — all images © Giovanni Hänninen 2021