FALLING IN LOVE IN YEOVILLE

Love stories are about encounters, dreams and fantasies. While they reflect the structure of South African society - inequality, xenophobia, prejudice and precarious lives, love sometimes challenges these structures - individuals standing against injustice, fighting assumptions, overcoming barriers. These stories are also about migrant lives – the fragility linked to mobility and survival; concerns for documents and legalization; differences in language, culture and expected gendered roles. They are also about the beauty of encounters, strikes of chance or luck, amidst these complexities. These stories are about hope.

In order to capture them, the authors chose to interview lovers individually, in order to understand their rationale and how individuals recall their own story of the making of their couple. The authors also accompanied them for a photography session on the sites that meant the most for the unfolding of their love story.

   Project facilitated by Willy-Claude Hebandjoko, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Shahid Vawda

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