Madagascar: the "Maina" exhibition bears witness to the drought affecting the Great South
Malagasy photographer TangalaMamy in front of some of his photos at the French Institute of Madagascar in the capital, Antananarivo.
He presents, with his colleague Henitsoa Rafalia, the exhibition "Maina" which bears witness to the daily life of populations hit by drought in the Great South of Madagascar.
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In Madagascar, an exhibition aims to raise awareness of the drought affecting the populations of the Great South of the island.
Malagasy photographers TangalaMamy and Henitsoa Rafalia present "
Maina
", ("
dry
", in French) at the French Institute of Madagascar, in the center of the capital Antananarivo, until July 2.
An exhibition that confronts the public with the climate emergency that affects the inhabitants of the Deep South.
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With our correspondent in Antananarivo,
Laetitia Bezain
Fields that have become arid and cracked lands, inhabitants who dig the beds of dry rivers, the tireless search for water, or gazes that are sometimes extinguished and glimmers of hope: the 36 color photos of the exhibition project the spectator in the reality of these
populations upset by a persistent drought
, says the photographer TangalaMamy:
“
The impact of climate change is what we see in the photos, but above all we wanted to show the difficulty on a daily basis, all that these people suffer when it does not rain for a long time.
In one of the villages where I went, the inhabitants dug for four months up to 12 meters in diameter in the hope of having a stock of water.
In the series, we see a gentleman with a blank look, because a few years ago, he had a herd of around fifty animals.
But with the drought, he sold them all over time.
»
Scenes of life captured in the districts of Ampanihy and Ambovombe, territories cut off from the rest of the country because of the poor state of the roads.
Henitsoa Rafalia and
TangalaMamy
hope to raise awareness:
“
Over there, there is no water for nine months, even a year and a half, so the idea of creating a click in people who are a little in their comfort and why not, for those in power, say that there is still the possibility of reversing the trend by really doing what they promised when we went to vote for them.
That people can practice real agriculture, because there are very good soils in the South, but the main element, water
, is missing ”
,
continues TangalaMamy.
Nearly one and a half million inhabitants of the extreme south of the island are in
a situation of food insecurity
.
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To read also:
Madagascar: agro-ecology, a model for achieving food self-sufficiency?
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