2013-06-27

Rebeuss @ night

Here are two long exposition pictures of Rebeuss, from my window. Don't be fooled: the street was not empty, nor the clouds lightened by sunset. People were moving too fast for my 10-seconds exposure (but not the women sitted on the first picture), and clouds reflect the light pollution of Dakar.




2013-06-23

Taking pictures of people

Taking pictures of my all-african neiborhood is a task harder than expected. I quickly learned that most people here just hate to have their photo taken - and they let you know.

"What are these for?" - "With Facebook and stuff, we don't know where the picture can go" - or even worse, when I say that I'm a journalist : "Will you sell them?".

"I just want to picture the senegalese daily life, the senegalese culture. Don't you want the world to see it?", I usually reply. Then they ask for money. "10 000 f CFA [20 dollars] and you shoot whatever you want". Well, I rather not.

When you look like a white 24 years-old tourist, people don't believe you saying that you aren't rich at all. So pretty much each picture needs a deal. This can be really exhausting.

Summer solstice is being celebrated in the streets of Rebeuss. (June 22nd)

 People dance on the beats of tam-tams in a crowded tiny courtyard, just next door.

Sheeps, everywhere in Dakar.

A typical courtyard of a project-like appartment building.
There were a lot of people standing on the truck, but they started being hostile towards me when I tried to shoot them. "People are sensible", told me a senagalese journaliste when I explained what happened.

On the other hand, a lot of children love being photographed. They often stop you in order to pose properly.

2013-06-19

Rebeuss



Typical street of Rebeuss


Busy Dakar


Sheeps on my street


Working horse, Rebeuss


"Le boulevard" at noon


"Car Rapides" on boarding


Small marketplace towards "la Medina" area


Senegalese wrestler are pictured on advertising, just by the slums of Rebeuss (next to Rebeuss courthouse)


"Car Rapide" being fixed. Writings on the car: "transport en commun" / "public transit"


Downtown people. "Place de l'indépendance", center of "Le Plateau", financial district of Dakar


Yellow and black 1985' Toyota corolla or 1990' Renault 21 ?- no doubt, it's a Dakar cab. Perfectly safe, often friendly, seldom fair with prices. Espacially if you are tourist-looking, you must deal hard the price of your journey.


There ends the area "Rebeuss": Atlantic Ocean. From the brand-new freeway located on "West Corniche" (seaside), a nice view of Mausolée Seydou Nourou Tall during a busy afternoon.