Harmattan - Togo Photo Festival Graphic Waves of Sand

Waves of Sand

features 25 hands-on and creative activities inspired by photography

the title may at first appear to be «why-why-why»

Une généalogie des grandes oreilles is the result of my iconographic research conducted over the past three years on what I call “Big Ears”: these military surveillance devices that call upon the act of mediated listening – an increased listening through a mediator

and to create them themselves

Harmattan - Togo Photo Festival Graphic Waves of SandThe works of the Togolese artists presented in Harmattan reveal the narrative and visionary force of contemporary African photography through a hybrid visual language grounded in lived experience, shaped by ancestral memory, and animated by the vitality of traditions and spirituality. Named after the dry wind that carries the desert dust across West Africa to the Gulf of Guinea, Harmattan evokes a moment of altered perception: a season in which light