In 2009, ten Nigerian photographers came together and embarked on a project called INVISIBLE BORDERS 2009 – a trip from Lagos to Bamako by road. The project was inspired by the 8th edition of the Festival of photography in Bamako. This initiative arose as a result of an urgent need to address the notion of dividing borders between countries in the African continent. It was an attempt to acquire a more realistic sense of the similarities and difference between peoples suggested by cultural and geographical divides. But beyond geographical frontiers, it was in a bid to experience firsthand those salient but latent factors which suggest a certain form of demarcation between a people of similar race, hence the project’s nomenclature: INVISIBLE BORDERS. Later, it was decided that it becomes an annual event which will anchor itself to the different cultural and artistic events taking place all over the continent, thereby forming a cultural and artistic network between cities and countries in Africa from its departure point Lagos, Nigeria. The Invisible Borders Road Trip is now on its 3rd Edition, traveling for a long haul from Lagos to Addis Ababa in November - December 2011.
My experience during this project became 'divided'. I had to go back to attend to another project, with different artists, in a different location. I will blog that soon. I plan, before the Invisible Borders project ends, to catch up with it , and then make my experience 'complete', not 'divided. I have few pictures I made during my first short part of the trip.
The Vendor (by chidinma nnorom) Invisible Borders Project 2011.
To know more about the Project follow: www.invisible-borders.blogspot.com.
Images are (c) chidinma nnorom and courtesy Invisible Borders
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