Between Sand and Water "Archive work"

The project captures the resilience of communities (in and around Ada and Keta, on the coast of Ghana) and how they cope with the consequences of the constant environmental changes and challenges in their everyday lives. It explores the relationship between the people, the sea and the land. The envisioned archive will consist of new images and scanned old (family) photographs which subsequently, through screen printing, are transferred onto an ‘Abala’ (locally manufactured sheds) and flags used by the fisherfolk of these communities. These physical archives are then brought back into the communities and thus made accessible in the hope to stimulate an exchange about climate change and its immediate impact on people’s daily lives.

Thoughts being explored:

- History of the coastal dwellers in Ada and Keta

- New means of archiving using every day locally manufactured backdrops

- Activating climate watch conversations through the use of Abala as a point of convergence. This is inspired by conversations fisherfolk have under their Abala when mending their fishing nets

- Oral histories exchanged by the fisherfolk under the Abala

- Use of aerial photography, videography and portraiture in storytelling