Nio Far means "we are together." It refers to a way of living where community is at its center.

In West Africa, I noticed how natural togetherness feels. Life there is less about the individual and more about what you are together, where connection isn’t something you look for but something that already exists.
 

In the Western world, I experience that differently. We live close to each other but often pass one another by. Everyone seems on their way, busy with themselves, with achieving and moving forward. Sometimes it feels like we’ve forgotten what it means to truly live together

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Nio Far is an expression of mutual respect, acceptance and comfort. I believe the phrase can be used anywhere in the world in the same way I experienced Nio Far in Senegal. After my time in Senegal, Nio Far became more than just a phrase to me. It became a way of living in which you look after the people close to you. More of an ideology than anything else.

The story I want to tell with Nio Far is largely about the shared moments from which we can draw strength through being together. To show what it feels like when community becomes a way of life. And how we as people, and how a community, can achieve more and find support in one another. 

The images reflect what I felt in the community of M’bour: the warmth, the laughter, the silence, the worries they carry together and the connection.