PRIDE project

Born in 1978, Andrew Esiebo lives and works in Ibadan. He is one of the founder members of the Nigerian photojournalist collective Black Box. Andrew Esiebo taught himself photography with his first camera, given to him in 2000, photographing subjects such as the young people of his generation, nightlife, football, the renewal of religious fervour, urban development and the cultural traditions of Nigeria.

With the "Pride" project, Andrew Esiebo proposes a photographic exploration of the phenomenon of hairdressers and barbers for men in the countries of western Africa. He has attempted to inventory the variety of styles requested by clients, as well as the places in which barbers work in the large cities of western Africa.

Multimedia work: audio and video interviews and photographs

VADE RETRO project

With a degree in Arts and Communication and a Master's degree in Visual Arts, Joao Castilho was born in 1978 and is one of the new generation of Brazilian photographers; a representative of the "imaginary documentary".

Vade Retro is a photographic essay on the relationship of man with a world which is not palpable or immediate, a world which is not so visible or so real. A spectral world, an ancestral world made of apparitions, futures, nomadism and processes. This is an essay on the transient, the incomplete, the hybrid. And – why not? – also a work on the inevitable failure inherent in every life.

Photographic series

SOMEONE project

Hak Kim was born in 1981 in the province of Battambang, in the west of Cambodia. His series ON was presented at the 2010 Phnom Penh Photography Festival, and in the context of PHOTOQUAI 2011. From a family of rice farmers, on his arrival in Phnom Penh Hak Kim became preoccupied with the demolitions resulting from property speculation convulsing the panorama of a capital whose charm was to a large extent due to its peaceful horizontalism.

His project consists of an archaeological journey through what remains of the 1960s at Kep, a town situated in the south of the kingdom of Cambodia, and which was in the 1960s the seaside destination of choice for holidaymakers, to the point where it became the fashionable resort of the Cambodian Riviera.

Kep provides information on the modern architecture of the time and reveals the golden age of Cambodia before the war and the disaster of the Khmer Rouge. "Someone" still inhabits these ghost-houses, and identifies with these strange ruins.

Photographic series