The Harmattan Dream
24-29 December 2019, Northern Ghana
The project was inspired by a dream I had in which I found myself in the northern terrain of Ghana. I saw thick fog merging humans and landscape. The dream was with no colour, just black and white, with different shades and tones of grey, ash and silver, as well as water, clouds, dry air, and Earth.
Realising the dream became the process as I contemplated, composed, discarded, regarded, overlooked, and accepted the landscape.
The viewfinder suggested possible answers to possible paths.
At the end of that road trip, I recognized one other element, which was the time of the season. My intension to capture this dream didn’t go as envisioned, as my chosen time for exploring was earlier than the arrival of the Harmattan winds (the weather element which was supposed to provide foggy conditions for my process).
My dream had inspired a vision of nature merging with man’s constructed world. The experience has become a reminder of how much nature influences our dreams and how they will be realised, or not, under nature’s
accommodation.Shot on Canon ae-1 + Ilford hp5 film + Ilford ortho plus 80 film
Photography and words by Ofoe Amegavie
