The trapping of nsenene has long been a traditional source of both food and income in parts of Uganda where the crickets swarm twice a year after the rainy seasons. It’s also about the meeting of mythology and economics, the fraught confluences of tradition and technology, climate change, opportunity, and magic. Of course, the book isn’t just about harvesting bush crickets. The creatures are called nsenene in the Luganda language spoken in Africa’s Great Lakes region, including Uganda, where the photographer lived and worked for 10 years until the late summer of 2021. Though they’re generally referred to as grasshoppers, Michele Sibiloni’s new book, Nsenene, is in fact about the nocturnal harvesting of bush crickets ( Ruspolia differens if we want to get specific).
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