13° Edition
Muntaka Chasant
Ghana: Following our e-waste
Muntaka Chasant (Ghana, 1985) is a Ghanaian documentary photographer and independent researcher with long-standing interests in issues at the intersection of human geography and environmental sociology.
© Gerald Anderson
Muntaka Chasant has worked at the cross field between environment and human mobility for more than a decade. His ethnographic fieldwork has touched on geographies of discarded materials, urban marginality, and emerging environmental issues, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
His photography has appeared in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers worldwide. Contesting everyday representations of sites of environmental justice struggles, Muntaka proposes alternative forms of geographical knowledge productions by rethinking how we imagine and mediate distant suffering. With a postgraduate background in international relations, he advocates for people and communities entangled in sociospatial struggles that have become global in nature.
Also interested in memory and future discourses, he utilizes the tensions between remembering and forgetting and the intertwining of memory and identity to weave narratives of alternative futures.
