Visitors or campers at Utopian Nights: Inside the Border taking place this week at Howard Gardens in Mdina can have their portrait taken by visiting Congolese photographer André Désiré Loutsono, known as Kinzenguélé.

Images of a wartorn and epidemic-ridden Africa flood the media. But how many images are there of Europeans taken by Africans?

Loutsono’s photo studio, set up in the garden, provides different backdrops of the ideal home imagined by African and European participants living in Malta. One backdrop will be a painting by Sudanese artist Malik Yahia.

Forming part of the Valletta 2018 cultural programme, Utopian Nights: Inside the Border provides a platform for people to discuss important social issues related to exile and conflict and to also collectively reimagine four contemporary themes: displacement, borders, encampment and the rise of global commons.

The photography event runs until Saturday at Howard Gardens, in Mdina, from 4pm to 7pm. Utopian Nights comes to an end on Monday. For more information, visit www.valletta2018.org or the Utopian Nights Facebook page.

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