Last fall Groningen's Janneke Leegstra visited the shanty-towns of Brazil and the bush of Africa. Life in the Brazilian favelas is dominated by the drug scene and the armed gangs that control it. Life hangs by a thread. Even from behind prison bars drug bosses run the neighbourhoods. Leegstra visualises this sense of insecurity and aggression in a series of black and white photographs.

Burkina Faso is among the poorest countries in the world. The ever advancing Sahel and the droughts, famine and illness that it brings with it are a constant threat to life. Yet Leegstra encountered great hospitality, solidarity and pride, which she recorded in warm colour photographs.