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| Grandmothers playing football |
Nigerian photographer Andrew Esiebo will
exhibit his work body of work Alter Gogo, a diptych portrait series featuring
grandmothers who play football with the Gogo Getters Football Club in Orange
Farm, a large township in South Africa at PHOTOQUAI 2011, in Paris, France. The
exhibition starts on September 13 and will end on November 11. Esiebo’s Alter
Gogo also offers an alternative image of African women. Quite often in the
mainstream imagination, African women are located in the sphere of
"tradition". For them, playing the football has become a passport to
a better life, giving the women social relevance in their community, as well as
better health. Playing football is their solution to many social and physiological
problems like diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and alcohol addiction.
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| Esiebo explores life on and off-field for grannies |
Created in 2007 by the Musée du quai Branly
and dedicated to non-Western photography, the 3rd edition of the PHOTOQUAI
biennial exhibition of world images takes place on the quays of the Seine
alongside the Musée du quai Branly, extending for the first time into the
museum garden. This third edition of PHOTOQUAI presents nearly 400 works by 46
contemporary photographers from 29 countries: South Africa, Congo, Ethiopia,
Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo, Morocco, Tunisia, Bahrain, Iraq, Belarus, Russia,
China, South Korea, India, Japan, Taiwan, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Colombia,
Brazil.
For more photos visit his site
For more photos visit his site
