Delicious Cup

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  • Dates
    2023 - 2023
  • Author
  • Topics Archive, Contemporary Issues, Editorial, Portrait, Social Issues, Street Photography
  • Locations Bamako, Togo
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Delicious Cup is a documentary series that examines life in its most unfiltered state — where beauty and bitterness coexist. The title is intentionally ironic: the images do not aim to sweeten reality, but to reveal the endurance behind it.

Delicious Cup is a study in unfiltered human experience.
In this series, Wall Kurt employs a fragmentary visual strategy that foregrounds the tension between immediacy and contemplation.
The work was produced in Bamako as part of the AfriDocs Documentary Development Lab, where the artist developed a methodology rooted in observation, proximity, and emotional intuition.

The sequence unfolds through six typologies of encounter:
the collective body, the unexpected gesture, the mundane object, the intimate portrait, the nocturnal tension, and the communal release.
Together, they construct a non-linear narrative that resists aestheticization and instead prioritizes presence.

Kurt’s images function as sensory documents — textured, raw, and emotionally charged.
His practice reveals a commitment to photographing from within the environment rather than from a distance, positioning him as a contemporary voice attentive to the complexities of everyday life.

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Child PlayA collective scene bathed in orange light.Bodies running, laughing, escaping.A moment of pure energy, where the street becomes a playground, a burst of freedom at the heart of daily life.

© WALL KURT - Image from the Delicious Cup photography project
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Delicious CupOrdinary objects: baskets, plastic, everyday materials.A silent scene that reveals the hidden poetry in simple things, the traces of effort, lives, routines — the raw taste of reality.

© WALL KURT - Image from the Delicious Cup photography project
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Delicious CupOrdinary objects: baskets, plastic, everyday materials.A silent scene that reveals the hidden poetry in simple things, the traces of effort, lives, routines — the raw taste of reality.

© WALL KURT - Image from the Delicious Cup photography project
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Wild DreamA white horse bursts into the frame, suspended in an unpredictable gesture.An almost unreal vision, on the border between chaos and grace — a wild dream that crosses reality without warning.

© WALL KURT - Image from the Delicious Cup photography project
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YesterdayA dense crowd, captured in black and white, where bodies merge into a single collective movement.The image opens the series like a living memory — a raw street recollection, unembellished, where each person carries a fragment of a story.