Little North Road (2009–2014) examines a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou, once a symbolic gateway between Africa and China. The bridge served as a meeting point for diverse communities, reflecting the complex interactions and exchanges that characterize the area.

At the heart of the project is an archive I assembled of the work of two Chinese itinerant photographers, Wu Yongfu and Zeng Xianfang. For years they made their living photographing African traders, migrants and other visitors who wanted a memento of their time in China. The archive holds thousands of these vernacular portraits, a rare glimpse into the aspirations and daily lives of the people passing through this crossroads.

Alongside the archive, I made my own photographs of the bridge and its surroundings: its architecture, its daily activity and the flows of people and goods around it. Together, the portraits and my photographs form a layered account of the bridge as a site of migration, connection and transformation.

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