Ekifire – The half-dead
From 2012 to 2018, Frédéric Noy photographed and gave testimony to persecuted sexual minorities in east Africa. In nations (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda) with none social safety, revealing one’s homosexuality condemns one to social isolation: discovering a job, a home, a which means to 1’s existence is sort of not possible. For a lot of, they’re ekifire, or ‘half-dead’, as Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni known as them at a rally welcoming the appearance of an anti-gay regulation. Nonetheless, activists refuse to be disowned
{Photograph}: Frederic Noy
