Copyright: Beat Presser
11 November 2010
Setting Sail Dhows, traditional Arab wooden sailing vessels, are places of social interaction for traders, fishermen and other inhabitants of the coast. From autumn until spring, the northeast monsoon Kaskazi blows the dhows from the Persian Gulf, India or China to the east African coast. The southwest monsoon Kusi sends them sailing back home. The travelling exhibition Kusi and Kaskazi/South And North tells the story of these boats in the Indian Ocean and shows black and white photographs by Beat Presser. The Goethe-Institut in Dar es Salaam invited the Swiss photographer to sail on a dhow last year along the coast of Tanzania. He photographed the lives of the people on the water, the fishermen and their families and the monsoon wind between the waves. The same dhow is now being used as the exhibition space for his photos and will travel once again with them from port to port from 12 November until 6 December 2010.
