Hunger & Malnutrition
FACILITATOR / EDITOR
Action Against Hunger UK engaged myself and my long-time collaborator Ingrid Guyon to deliver a unique participatory photography and video project in Touba Seras, a village on the outskirts of Louga in northern Senegal. The project enabled participants to document the high incidence of hunger and malnutrition affecting their community with increased frequency and severity. Action Against Hunger planned to use the images and footage produced to support their communications and fundraising work.
Ten community members – representing a wide range of ages, experiences, backgrounds, and roles within the community’s own responses to hunger and malnutrition – joined the project as ‘participants’. Working together over the course of two weeks, the group created a powerful collection of photographs and video footage that captures the lives of a community facing hunger and hunger- related diseases on a daily basis, and their unified efforts to support and guide one another to a healthier and more secure future. They took this opportunity to present the solutions they have put in place and highlight the additional support needed to continue and deepen their responses.
“When we started drawing, we thought we were just going to play. But when we went into the community, I realised that a story can be about past, present or the future”