Long time ago in the times of Ancient Greece, Heraclitus, a well-established thinker, was found simply basking by a fire. His reaction to the astonishment of the newcomers, who did not expect to find the philosopher at such a prosaic activity, was the answer: “For here too the gods are present ”. By analogy, the genesis of the project presented here is the praise of small joys and sorrows, the praise of everyday effort and the praise of existence.

       The photographs presented here were taken in Gambia and Senegal over the course of a couple of days...