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On behalf of the MEP Julie Ward, the Doc Next Network and the European Cultural Foundation, we warmly invite you to take part in the media showcase Radical Democracy – Citizens from Poland, Spain, Turkey and the UK Reclaim their Cities, which will be followed by a debate. This event is co-hosted by MEP Julie Ward (S&D) and the EP Intergroup on Public Services and Common Goods, in cooperation with the Doc Next Network and the European Cultural Foundation.

The person writing this brief (and all of these) artist statements, is of African immigrant dissent. My father was born in a village in the bush outside of Kumasi, Ghana. I've seen both contemporary Africa, and the exotic. This series by Jadwiga Figula shows the exotic side, but it's also a sincerely poetic dose of the other side of the world. No series of photographs can tell the whole story of contemporary Africa, and these certainly aren't that. But the beauty here is heart stopping. The young boy with the wild horned Yaks is one of those images that brings another world directly into one's heart and soul. It's unstoppable, it's romantic and it's an entirely intoxicating view on how people live on the other side of the world. Share your story with the world. Click here to submit your work.