Simply Life – Burkina Faso

Jesus sticker on front window of a car, passing by a mosque

man sleeping on a bench in front of a hotel

crowd on the way home after a football match

in the new quarters of Ouagadougou the trees are rare

tons of a foggy solution are spread out by a lorry to kill mosquitos

the whole quarters were coming to the only place with tv

two guys smoking weed in front of Bob Marley poster

at night there’s absolutely no light in the suburbs

In 1998 i went to Burkina Faso to cover the African Cup of Nations. But at my surprise, nothing of what all expected, a crowd of happy and colorful people supporting football and making party all day and night, happened. So I changed my focus on the daily life of three families in three different locations to show how simple life could just be simply life.

parts of this work has been used for exhibitions and published in the book of Simon Haller about the national heritage robbery.