Author Archives: Sammy Baloji

Photo essay: waste lands

By 7 June 2021 Photography

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The cities and landscapes of the DRC are littered with traces left by a violent and toxic history of colonialism, mining and urban transformation, powerfully captured in the works of Sammy Baloji

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