iDiaspora Photo Contest - 2022: Submission #96

Submission Number: 96
Submission ID: 10276
Submission UUID: 1fc5a4ad-d3b9-4136-a73e-4399ee1479d6
Submission URI: /en/photo-contest

Created: Fri, 11/04/2022 - 14:20
Completed: Fri, 11/04/2022 - 14:31
Changed: Fri, 11/04/2022 - 14:31

Remote IP address: 95.101.128.125
Submitted by: SIMBARASHE MSOMI
Language: English

Is draft: No

Personal Information

SIMBARASHE
MSOMI
South African
JOHANNESBURG
GAUTENG
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Professional

Presentation on the photographic series

CONNECTED SOULS
Navigating identities: is there a relationship between Diaspora’s homeland and new land? How do diasporas express their sense of belonging in multiple societies?, Diasporas as influencers: how does the diaspora contribute positively to their societies through the use of technology?
In the times of a heavy influence of a post colonial era, it has been a great leap for Africans living in the diaspora to communicate, eat, enhance their standard of living and to cater for their accommodation needs. In this series of photographs, I explore the overlapping contrasts of poverty and wealth. On the one hand the people are living in abject poverty, however, technology and infrastructure
seems to be evolving in a certain direction. It brings the question of how do we asa society neglect basic needs over multinational projects, which only benefit a few? Vegetable sales and the background of a cluttered and chaotic infrastructure/buildings, overpower him.Powerlines, telephone towers are erect. In the background a community farms , keeping to their traditions of their roots and although of migration, they are still using their skills which they were handed down by their forefathers. Community, connection,cultivation,care.

Upload your Photos (3 photos)

  • Photo: a.PNG
    Title: MAKING A LIVING
    Brief introduction: A busy street market which shows a foreground of a man making a living of vegetable sales and the background of upcoming infrastructure
    Photo date: 2022-11-01
    Photo location: CAMEROON
  • Photo: b.jpg
    Title: ONLY US
    Brief introduction: These men, besides having relocated in what they thought would be a brighter future, they are still stuck in poverty, but somehow content to be together
    Photo date: 2019-07-13
    Photo location: KENYA
  • Photo: c.jpg
    Title: SKYLINES IN THE FUTURE
    Brief introduction: Powerlines, telephone towers are erect. In the background a community farms , keeping to their traditions of their roots and although of migration, they are still using their skills which they were handed down by their forefathers
    Photo date: 2020-08-06
    Photo location: KENYA
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