This Is What Hatred Did — Cristina de Middel, first edition

Cristina de Middel’s This Is What Hatred Did is a haunting visual transcription of Amos Tutuola’s 1954 Yoruba folklore novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts , reimagined through photography, fiction and reportage in the fraught urban landscape of Makoko, a floating slum in Lagos. At once allegory and documentary, the book slips between myth and reality, echoing Tutuola’s narrative style with staged images, saturated hues and vivid printed matter that seem to emerge directly from the underworld.

Technical Sheet
Title: This Is What Hatred Did
Artist / Author: Cristina de Middel
Date: 2015
Edition: First edition
Signed: No
Technique / Printing Method: Offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover photobook with colour plates and illustrated endpapers
Dimensions: 13 × 28
Pages: 180
Language: English
Publisher: RM Verlag / La Fábrica / Images en Manoeuvres / Archive of Modern Conflict
ISBN: 9788415118731
Condition: NEW