Ponte de Villa du Gamek, Luanda, Angola, 2009–2010

‘Ponte de Villa du Gamek, Luanda, Angola’ by Lard Buurman (1969, the Netherlands) is from the series ‘Africa Junctions’, for which Buurman travelled to fourteen cities in twelve African countries over a period of six years (2008-2014). His aim: to capture and record the changing rhythms and informal, oftentimes chaotic, networks of African cities; places which remain largely ‘invisible’ to many Westerners. Buurman’s images form a cross between documentary and staged photography: the final image is recreated retrospectively in Buurman’s studio using multiple exposures taken from the same perspective. In times of increasing globalization and urbanization, Buurman hypothesizes that his work may “give us an idea about a possible future for our own cities.”