Bruno Boudjelal — Goudron Tanger-Le Cap ou L’impossible voyage
Rencontres de Bamako
Bamako, Mali (FRANCE)
Du 7 novembre au 7 décembre 2009
As part of the Rencontres de Bamako, the African Biennal of Photography, 8th edition, Bruno Boudjelal displays photographs from his impossible trip : crossing Africa for North to South.
“For nearly five years as I travel through Africa from north to south in a journey impossible. Initially this project was to take me a few months at most one year. Today I realize that these roads, I thought to borrow freely, do not exist. Roads and railways are nonexistent or very poor condition, closed borders, the war areas, mined.
(…) Opening up Africa’s foremost enable its inhabitants to move, exchange, or trade freely within their own space. This is a flagship project of the African Union to build and renovate roads between countries, however, one can imagine that if trade were not made by sea or air, beautiful roads may traverse the continent. After this long journey, it seems that all these barriers to moving people and goods are a real factor in underdevelopment. It is this invisible boundary, then, that I speak in my job, this border terrible you to block your every step…”
Bruno Boudjelal
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