POLITICAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS
Calais
With my first political photography project, I was asking myself the question “how can we document the racist crisis for refugees on the european borders without reproducing harmful and racist imagery naturalising misery?”. Negotiating the need for coverage and the production of imagery of white savioursim.

Defending Lützerath
During the eviction of the occupation of the village of Lützerath, near the brown coal pit Garzweiler II in Germany, by climate justice activists, I captured moments of resistance against RWE, one of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world making profits while creating humanities worst crisis unfolding in its full atrocity.

No Need For Valentina
My latest portrait project is “No Need For Valentina” - a safer space for asexual, aromantic, queer and “hetero singles” to explore their wholeness in contrast to the notion of being “ a failure to society for being on their own ” in a queerfeminist space.

GETTING POLITICAL:
I study philosophy and political science at the University of Bonn, where I learned that western institutions are still a factory that produces racism, sexism and coloniality through exclusive white male knowledge production.

Realizing that I want to be part of something more meaningful than pursuing an academic career that will burn me out eventually, I started joining different social justice initiatives.
Soon I was deeply involved in the german climate justice scene organising BIPoC climate activists that were being marginalised in their own activist communities because of unreflected whiteness.
Since then I am working as a trainer, educator and author on the topics of climate injustice caused by european colonialism.

Returning to the academia, I founded the BIPoC student society at the University of Bonn to help me sustain my mental health while finishing my bachelors degree.

Currently, I am working on an anticolonial project in Cologne AnKoRa - a queerfeminist, non-commercial, intersectional space - that is being created from BIPoC for BIPoC and beyond.