Dress to impress: clothing rituals from around the world – in pictures
From 2012 to 2018, Frédéric Noy photographed and testified to persecuted sexual minorities in East Africa. In countries (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda) without any social protection, revealing one's homosexuality condemns one to social isolation: finding a job, housing, a meaning to one's existence is almost impossible. For many, they are ekifire, or "half dead", as Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called them at a rally welcoming the advent of an anti-gay law. Yet activists refuse to be disavowed
Photography: Frédéric Noy
From 2012 to 2018, Frédéric Noy photographed and testified to persecuted sexual minorities in East Africa. In countries (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda) without any social protection, revealing one's homosexuality condemns one to social isolation: finding a job, housing, a meaning to one's existence is almost impossible. For many, they are ekifire, or "half dead", as Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called them at a rally welcoming the advent of an anti-gay law. Yet activists refuse to be disavowed
Photography: Frédéric Noy
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