My father, who's Swiss, was working for a few years in West Africa when he met the lady who would turn into my mom in her homeland of Guinea. They ended up settling in Switzerland, which is the place I lived till I turned 27. Since then, as a photographer, I’ve spent years exploring my mixed-race background, in tasks focusing primarily on Africa — Guinea, but additionally South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Benin, the Ivory Coast and elsewhere.
Now I reside within the Bordeaux area of France, however in the course of the pandemic, with worldwide journey made troublesome, I discovered myself with a nostalgic want to reclaim who I'm. This summer season, once I lastly had the chance, I selected to discover Switzerland — not the Swiss tradition by which I grew up however the unique sensations with which I constructed myself. I celebrated the nationwide vacation and noticed the fireworks in Iseltwald, on Lake Brienz. I took a practice as much as the Jungfraujoch. I went climbing all around the nation. And I spent days visiting my father’s cousins, most of whom reside within the French area, in Neuchâtel and La Grande Béroche.
It all introduced again buried reminiscences — each good and dangerous. I attempted to doc this journey inside myself, exhibiting the complexity of how we consistently modify our representations and expertise of the previous. I wished to rediscover the being I used to be yesterday, in addition to the sensations that made me who I'm at present and who I will likely be tomorrow.
