Photojournalism at the Crossroads

Surprise
"The subject of my work in eastern Congo is the conflict's intangibility and our blindness to it. The project seeks to challenge the ways in which Congo is typically represented. The project's goal is to provoke a dialogue surrounding the generic conventions of documentary photography in Congo, and more generally in Africa. The aim is to surprise the viewer to look again at a forgotten but very tragic conflict."

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