Photography and text, 2018
Project in collaboration with Nasir S.
Presented at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Sept 22- Nov 25, 2018.
And at VU, Quebec City, Oct 26- Dec 2, 2018
Badda means the Sea narrates the memories of Nasir S., a fisherman and free diver who left a Somali island for a new beginning in Scotland. Nasir recalls the sea as a captivating, yet frightening, entity. His grandiose stories which evoke mythology contain expansive sea forests, divers skilled in underwater ear breathing, five-finger trees, and instructions for tricking dangerous sea animals. Badda means the Sea reflects how modes of memory are tactical forms of survival.
