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'The Afronauts' Creator Sees Ghosts and Magic in Lagos Angelina Jolie receives humanitarian award from Academy MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013 38 Graffiti are seen on the walls of a building under construction in the Lebanese capital Beirut on November 15, 2013.—AFP photos ‘The Afronauts’ creator sees ghosts and magic in Lagos Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel poses in front of some pictures of her series of photographs, The Afronauts, presented during the Lagos Photo Festival.—AFP photos Conn sending Christmas tree to hotographer Cristina De Middel’s trip to Nigeria has been in world photography. This year her celebrated “The Afronauts” was Rockefeller Center profitable. Not only did she exhibit her acclaimed series “The shown alongside new works by Cameroon’s Samuel Fosso, known for This Nov 28, PAfronauts” but also was inspired for her next project. Tucked taking chameleon-like photos of himself dressed as a range of figures 2012 file away in her suitcase as she left the country’s commercial capital Lagos from black African and American life. The former newspaper pho- photo shows for Paris last week was a copy of Nigerian author Amos Tutuola’s 1954 tographer is finding her own voice in the art world, blurring the lines the 80-foot- novel “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”. “It’s about a child who has to flee between fact and fiction with the aim of taking people out of their tall Rocke- his village because of war and goes into this magical place called ‘the comfort zone. feller Center bush’, a mystical place in Yoruba mythology where all the ghosts and “The Afronauts” was born as she surfed the Internet one day and Christmas spirits live,” the 38-year-old Spanish photographer told AFP. stumbled across an article on an improbable space program mounted during the “I realized straight away that (the slum neighborhood of) Makoko by Zambia in 1964. “I realized straight away that it was an incredible 80th annual could be a great metaphor for ‘the bush’—a magical place with laws story that allowed me to play a lot with the photos and give a differ- lighting that we don’t understand and shouldn’t be.” During her time in the ent point of view about Africa” beyond the old stereotypes of war and ceremony in teeming megacity, De Middel paid a visit to sprawling Makoko, much famine, she explained. A storyboard was quickly drawn up of a fantasy New York.— of which rises up on bamboo stilts out of the oily Lagos lagoon and is adventure in space. AP photos home to hundreds of thousands of people. As if by magic, her project took shape. Worldwide acclaim De Middel was not put off by her lack of knowledge of either Africa Spooks and ghouls or space and instead drew on her own catalogue of cliches, from el- Over four days, De Middel’s imagined ghosts and spirits came alive ephants, African material and the arid climate to the first steps on the 76-foot Norway spruce is joining Mayor Mark Lauretti says furnishing with the help of local volunteers, market-bought costumes and cheap moon and spacecraft. The result was a self-published book featuring thousands of other Connecticut Rockefeller Center with a tree is a big Halloween accessories brought from London. In one image, a “ghost” photographs of African astronauts in colorful space suits, compiled A commuters as it heads to work deal for Shelton, which calls itself “the made from an old curtain rises up hauntingly amid the ramshackle, with letters and articles from the time. One thousand copies of the in midtown Manhattan. For the second best affordable suburb in Connecticut.” The tree-lighting ceremony is scheduled tin-roofed huts and in another seemingly hangs from a sagging wash- book were quickly snapped up, helped by the backing of leading Brit- time in six years, the city of Shelton is for Dec 4. The tree will remain on ing line. A third frame shows plastic joke shop spiders, beetles and ish photographer and collector Martin Parr, who was won over by the sending a Christmas tree to New York display until Jan 7. Rockefeller Center flies “crawling” over the face of a young man while a mirrored land- project.—AFP City’s Rockefeller Center for the annual holiday display. Workers were cutting has displayed Christmas trees since scape captures the ethereal quality of Makoko through burning wood 1931.--AP smoke and a leaden sky. the tree down Thursday and sending De Middel was in Nigeria for the fourth edition of Lagos Photo, the it by tractor-trailer to New York City, 70 annual festival that increasingly attracts some of the biggest names miles away..
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