Rahima Gambo

Rahima Gambo is a multidisciplinary artist based between London, UK and Abuja, Nigeria. Quotes Bird Sound Orientations is the name of a new language system that marks our position in a sound world without a gravitational center, obeyed only by the kinetic laws of bird song. “An ecology of communication that sprouts and roots, creating a thick overgrown, underground network of information. I was losing a sense of purpose while producing a certain sort of narrative about the Boko Haram conflict that was in demand. I reflected on the inadequacy of a linear documentary or journalistic style to narrate horrific or disastrous events. Walking was a way for me to disrupt and trouble the prescribed ways I had been taught about starting a documentary or photojournalistic project. The process of walking and picking up, gathering, or planting things, is such a natural action- it’s almost like my limbs knew exactly what to do without much conscious effort. A walk is also very much about the improvisation and impulsivity of moving through a space that is slowly revealing itself to you for the first time. This photograph is special to me because it was a moment where I began to daydream beyond the reality of what exactly I was photographing. Photography as a fluid continuum between still and moving image. Photography as a long process that begins before one picks up the camera and continues on long after one puts the camera down. I see the space between myself and my subject as a place to pause, dwell, explore and grapple with, uncomfortably. The camera and the photographic act as not a neutral process. Through the photographic process we also have an opportunity to resist the re-production of flat and violent images that remain on the surface of things. External links Category:1986 births Category:Living people Category:Photographers from Nigeria