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Soulful Tapestry

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A child walking with cattle through the Cameroon highlands

PHOTOGRAPHS + FILMS / CAMEROON

Soulful
Tapestry.

Journeys through Mbororo villages
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FIELD NOTE / 01

Across Cameroon,
village by village.

Soulful Tapestry is a collection of photographs and films made during my journeys to Mbororo villages across Cameroon.

The work stays close to the people, landscapes and daily rhythms encountered along the way: the road into a village, cattle moving through the hills, cooking fires, family life and the quiet between events.

A woman carrying a child walks across open farmland
ST—01ACROSS THE FIELDSCAMEROON / FIELD JOURNEY
A figure carrying a long staff beneath a large tree
ST—02UNDER THE TREECAMEROON / FIELD JOURNEY
A smiling woman holding a young child between village buildings
ST—03VILLAGE PORTRAITCAMEROON / FIELD JOURNEY

FILM / 01

Mora

Moving-image field note
A group of men walking through a mountain village
ST—04ARRIVALCAMEROON HIGHLANDS
A woman in a patterned wrap walking along a green village path
ST—05BETWEEN RAINSCAMEROON / VILLAGE PATH

FILM / 02

Way of Zen

Cameroon
A woman preparing food beside a cooking fire
ST—06BY THE FIRECAMEROON / DAILY LIFE
A woman standing beside children resting together outdoors
ST—07AFTERNOON RESTCAMEROON / DAILY LIFE

FILM / 03

Baka

Moving-image field note

FIELD NOTE / 02

Lives in motion.

From home ground to open pasture
A woman pours water into bowls beside her home
ST—09WATER AT HOMECAMEROON / DAILY LIFE
A child stands at a simple fence with family gathered behind
ST—10AT THE FENCECAMEROON / VILLAGE LIFE
A baby wrapped close to a woman speaking with a neighbour
ST—11CARRIED CLOSECAMEROON / VILLAGE LIFE
Three children standing together in a village yard
ST—12THREE FRIENDSCAMEROON / VILLAGE LIFE
An older man seated outside a long earthen building
ST—13AFTERNOON SEATCAMEROON / VILLAGE LIFE
A woman walking beneath a broad shade tree
ST—15PASSING UNDER SHADECAMEROON / ON FOOT
A small child walking beside a group of calves
ST—14AMONG CALVESCAMEROON / PASTORAL LIFE
Children guiding cattle through open grassland
ST—16INTO PASTURECAMEROON / PASTORAL LIFE
A child follows a herd of cattle through misty highland grass
ST—08WITH THE HERDCAMEROON HIGHLANDS

THE ARCHIVE CONTINUES

Many more journeys
remain to be shown.

This is a first edit from a much larger collection of photographs and moving images made across Cameroon.

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