Graduation Project
Old Fadama, Ghana
Northwest of the center of Accra, Ghana, from the 1970s onward, an immense slum sprang up on the banks of the Odaw River. Today, tens of thousands of families live in this swampy area, each looking for a better future. Get acquainted with a bustling community, get to know Old Fadama…
This series of photos revolves around the children who are both born and living in Old Fadama. They never had the chance to choose where they lived and don’t have the means to move elsewhere later in their lives. Stuck and forced to live this life.
Graduation Project
Old Fadama, Ghana
Northwest of the center of Accra, Ghana, from the 1970s onward, an immense slum sprang up on the banks of the Odaw River. Today, tens of thousands of families live in this swampy area, each looking for a better future. Get acquainted with a bustling community, get to know Old Fadama…
This series of photos revolves around the children who are both born and living in Old Fadama. They never had the chance to choose where they lived and don’t have the means to move elsewhere later in their lives. Stuck and forced to live this life.
Graduation Project
Old Fadama, Ghana
Northwest of the center of Accra, Ghana, from the 1970s onward, an immense slum sprang up on the banks of the Odaw River. Today, tens of thousands of families live in this swampy area, each looking for a better future. Get acquainted with a bustling community, get to know Old Fadama…
This series of photos revolves around the children who are both born and living in Old Fadama. They never had the chance to choose where they lived and don’t have the means to move elsewhere later in their lives. Stuck and forced to live this life.
On the one hand, it is an admirable place, where an awful lot of people live together on a handkerchief. Figures are circulating ranging between 30,000 and 150,000 inhabitants. The gigantic community consists of people who have come to the capital from all corners of Ghana and are split into sixteen different tribes.
Environmental and health organizations have been addressing the phenomenon for years because of the serious repercussions on the environment and health. Others see this situation as a source of income for local residents.
