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“Egungun,” Sakété, Benin by Stephan Gladieu

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Transforming Trash into Protest Art

The second largest country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the richest sub-soils in the world in gold, coltan, diamonds, cobalt, oil... and yet remains the 8th poorest country on the planet.

The Congolese are among the biggest losers of globalisation. They rarely benefit from the products manufactured with the resources drawn from their country. In general, these products reappear in Africa in the third or fourth generation; at best they are outdated, but more often than not, they are no more than the waste products of industrialised countries that prefer to relocate their processing.

The DRC is experiencing an ecological scandal, but just as an alchemist transforms lead into gold, "Ndaku, la vie est belle" was born from these tons of rubbish. It was founded six years ago in Kinshasa by the artist Eddy Ekete, and today it brings together nearly 25 artists, almost all of whom were trained at the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts.

Painters, singers, visual artists and musicians have joined forces to denounce the tragedy of their daily lives, the wars that have resulted from them, the exploitation of women and men that stems from them and ferments the unfathomable misery that robs them of their dignity.

Originally, these artists had in common that they had no resources, no support and that they lived in a shanty town in Kinshasa, built on land filled with tons of untreated waste. Naturally, they found an abundance of free raw material in these remains.

Mobile phones, plastic, corks, everything is raw material - and yet already industrialised! - to denounce the chaos in which the country is kept.

If Congo Kinshasa has partly lost its animist and mystic traditions under the pressure of Catholicism and colonisation, the artists of the collective "Ndaku, la vie est belle" return to the traditional source of the African mask.

Courtesy of Stephan Gladieu

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Stéphan Gladieu/National Geographic

Congolese Artists Transform Garbage Into Garb To Take A Stand

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, artists’ creations protest the country’s plight as a dump for global waste. After years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kinshasa — following teachers’ advice on creating work with “proper” materials, such as resin and plaster of paris — some students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to do something different.

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Maï-Maï warriors, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by Stephan Gladieu

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Yoruba egúngún by Stephan Gladieu

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WILL SMITH 📷 Stephan Gladieu

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North Korea - Stephan Gladieu

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Yoruba egúngún by Stephan Gladieu

Masquerades of Nigeria, 2004

Jonkonnu, a Jamaican traditional band of masqueraders

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Stephan Gladieu -

; Ouvrir dans un nouvel onglet

Stephan Gladieu egungun le culte des ancêtres ancester cult Benin yoruba stephangladieu.fr

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These all go so fucking hard

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week 3 photographers study 3

Dorothea Lange

With Dorothea Lange what draw my attention is the focus on the characters faces and the emotion that is portrayed. The first photo does really well with the mothers dark hair and only her face being visible.  

Jonathan Mannion

Jonothan Mannion is arguable one of my favorites in the photos I love the composition in the middle of the picture posing like the own the picture. And the second photo with the vibrant background and the silver jewelry matching it makes it come together so well.  

Stephan Gladieu

These photos are interesting because the first one has a lot of detail in the background and the pants blend into the bottom of the photo almost turning it into a mid shot portrait. The framing makes it almost look like two different photos merged. The second photo looks more along the lines of a club photo but the balls are nice I would’ve preferred the red in the middle but I’m not the photographer.

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Africa’s Processing Industry Holds Promise for Broader Economic Growth

Africa’s Processing Industry Holds Promise for Broader Economic Growth

Abou Fumarou Mahamadou poses amid millet stalks dried in the sun. She belongs to a co-op of 32 women farmers in the commune of Tibiri in southwest Niger. Credit: Stephan Gladieu / World Bank By Chakib JenaneWASHINGTON DC, Nov 30 2022 (USNewsRank) As a central pillar of African diets for thousands of years, millet has a prized position as one of the continent’s most important crops. And with the…

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Stéphan Gladieu/National Geographic

Congolese Artists Transform Garbage Into Garb To Take A Stand

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, artists’ creations protest the country’s plight as a dump for global waste. After years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kinshasa — following teachers’ advice on creating work with “proper” materials, such as resin and plaster of paris — some students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to do something different.

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