Minority Report
(2014)

Minority Report reflects on the fragile position of the Himba communities of northern Namibia and southern Angola, whose pastoral way of life remains closely connected to land, water and livestock.

Frequently transformed by tourism into objects of curiosity and reduced to an image of cultural otherness, the Himba also face pressures that extend far beyond tourism. Development projects along the Kunene River have repeatedly raised concerns over access to ancestral grazing lands and the continuity of communities whose lives have been shaped by this territory for generations.

The photographs do not attempt to portray a culture as fixed in time, nor to preserve an image of an “untouched” people. They observe instead the tension between continuity and change, cultural identity and external forces, asking what happens when the interests of a small community encounter economic and political powers operating on an entirely different scale.

What is endangered is not an image of the past, but the possibility of determining how a way of life may continue and transform.