I recently had the great fortune of meeting Jacques Nkinzingabo. He is a young photographer from Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, and he was in Hamburg for a few days. We had a very intensive conversation about his generation, most of which grew up without a fatherly role model.
Jacques was only 10 days old when his father murdered became. I suddenly realized again what a feel-good bubble I live in. And then you sit together on the Jungfernstieg, enjoy the setting sun and suddenly wonder why people in Europe have a tendency to be unhappy. (I can't explain electoral successes for populist parties any other way.) So many years without wars (with the exception of Yugoslavia) are a wonderful gift. Of course, not everything goes smoothly here either, but war is something completely different...
Refugees were sitting not far from us and we started talking about Jacques Nkinzingabo's current photo project and why he keeps coming to Europe. His project is called "Looking for Freedom" and he wants to use it to show that although things are much better in Europe than in Africa, it is still far from easy for refugees to arrive in Europe. And that in two senses: firstly, the road to Europe is not easy, but once you are here, life is not easy either...
Now he has his on his website first pictures of the series “Looking for Freedom” published, which is why I would like to refer to it here. Jacques Nkinzingabo has something to tell and it becomes clear in his pictures. A very interesting person! If you have the chance to meet him, you should do it. Of course he is too represented on Instagram.
The current last picture in the series “Looking for Freedom” shows exactly our view that evening on Jungfernstieg.
And because it's a rainy Sunday, I'll give you a second link 🙂 How do immigrants from Nepal actually live in Hong Kong? The photographer Olivia Lala shows this her photos of a family with two children.
Technical: my portrait of Jacques Nkinzingabo was photographed with the Leica MP on T-Max100. The optics used was the Zeiss C Sonnar 1,5/50mm ZM, the wonderful inexpensive alternative to a Leica Summilux. The Zeiss Sonnar is an old optical bill, which is why it has very nice drawing and bokeh, but with new lenses for excellent sharpness. (Here one Amazon affiliate link for the lens.)
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Nonsense. But you can still reflect and realize that you are doing well.
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