TITLE: Grande Hotel Beira

Mozambique/Beira

Play between old walls and long shadows. The "Grande Hotel" in Beira was once the "Pride of Africa".
Built in the 1950s, closed down as a result of the fight for independence. Today up to 3000 people live there between rubbish and dirt. The children, who where born and grow up there, know no other way and make the ruin their playground.

AUTHOR: Meike Schrömbgens (Germany)

Meike Schrömbgens was born in Solingen (Germany) in 1976. After graduating from high school, she trained as an advertising photographer. She has been working as a freelance photographer since 2000.