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	Linda Valkemanmail@dailylinda.com+31 (0)6 51 61 91 49
Singel 268 K1016 AC Amsterdamthe Netherlands
PROJECT CONTEXT
Western clothing donations are responsible for a booming second hand industry across Africa. The impacts are diverse, overwhelming, and inspiring but they raise maby questions too. The Western perception of donating second hand clothing is seen as a positive solution - the donor helps the poor and avoids clothing going to Waste/Landfills. However, unbeknownst or “not” communicated is what really happens to the donated second hand clothing. What kind of impact does the ‘donated’ clothing have on the people who receive it? In search of answers Linda Valkeman, Carmen Hogg and Sammy Otteng initiated a sender-receiver conversation with teams in both the Netherlands and Ghana. With this dialogue they try to find answers to the many questions they have on the social impact of clothing donations- a phenomenon the Dutch and Ghanaians have a long history and wide presence of. This website presents the findings of the research and possible solutions by both the sender and receiver.&#38;nbsp;

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Linda Valkeman
mail@dailylinda.com+233 55 843 4904
No.19 Stephen Amartey StreetAccra, GhanaPERSONAL CONTEXT
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Linda Valkeman &#38;nbsp;


Linda Valkeman is a research-based designer who straddles the interface of design
and anthropology. Defining herself as a 'Material Teller' she aims to explore how the
meaning of objects, styles and aesthetic forms change over time and space. Her
multidisciplinary work studies the cultural dimensions of globalisation. Offering fresh
perspectives and critical questions on (Dutch) colonial activities in a contemporary context.
A accumulation of personal work &#38;amp; research belonging to the subjects that were
implicated in these flows.

 
Linda is continuously in search of alternative fluid (fashion)systems with potential to shape
future aesthetic patterns and consumption. Formally educated as a fashion designer, she
has always felt a love hate affair with it and functioned around the fringes of Fashion &#38;amp;
Textiles. Human scale modalities and narratives play an important role in her processes.
This sits alongside her fascination with the impact of habitual behaviours on peoples
bodies, materials, objects and their surrounding spaces. Her projects often reflect specific
social contexts and emphasise collaboration and participation. An anthropological
approach coupled with a keen interest in the contextual process is a recurring theme in her
work.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Samuel OttengSammy is a Accra-based designer and researcher. He graduated in 2018 from Radford University and is currently a Gucci Design Fellowship finalist. He has been upcycling clothing from Kantamanto for almost a decade. Within his work he is keen on making a socio-political statement. Exploring issues of neo-colonialism, sexuality and gender fluidity.Speaking on the secondhand clothing trade Sammy says: “It is both my ultimate competition and an avenue for raw material. Making space for both to be true is so important.
Second hand clothing may be detrimental to the Ghanaian fashion and textile industry but if the right steps are taken it can also be a way of propelling creativity whiles dealing with underlying issues of the socio-politics and environment. Kantamanto is neither “good” nor “bad.” Such binary thinking oversimplifies the convo and presents life as a series of transactions. But life is not simply transactional &#38;amp; we have seen what happens when the binary rules that govern our economy become the only way we relate to self, others and nature. It’s not looking good.&#38;nbsp;

When you are young you learn how stories are constructed. There isn’t good/bad or a problem and a solution. Conflict - yes. Resolution - maybe. Many different characters with diverse intentions, needs, wants &#38;amp; realities that are often in tension, this is why we often say that “nuance humanizes.”
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Carmen Hogg


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Introduction
	Second hand clothing trade offers the possibilities of exchange- crossing borders to meet with new design ideas that provide valuable opportunities. Our team believes that solutions must be discussed and explored between the sender of second hand clothing and the receiver, at both micro and macro level.To emphasize this assertion, we combine forces and perspectives to enrich the dialogue on clothing donation by including cross-cultural perspectives. The community page is an environment where like-minded people can meet each other. Together we strive to develop and support those ideas and interventions in which we see art and design as our tool to open the dialogue that unleash much needed societal shifts. Want to stay updated, learn and do? Join our community here.

	JAMES TOWN STREET STYLEBy Apag


	Apag is a shutterbug that first showed an interest in photography after his father sadly passed away and he was asked to prepare a slideshow for his wake. Although Apag is the main creative in the family his passion may have stemmed from his father’s fondness for artistic material, as well as photography. Like many other creative master minds he didn’t go to school to learn his craft. Instead he would lock himself away after high school in his bedroom and immerse himself in a fountain of photography knowledge from books or on the internet. 
 
Apag documented street style in James Town, a neighbourhood in Accra where, we believe, the most stylish people live and where second hand clothes are a go-to item for daily wear.


	Shoes on the beachBy HIONLIFE


HI ON LIFE started as a counter-reaction to the unsustainable mass production system of our fashion industry. In close collaboration with Ghanaian tailors and craftsmen, street couture is created on demand from the beach-side studio in Kokrobite/Accra. 

I experience the devastating amounts of trash that scatter the beautiful beaches here daily. Much of the trash is plastic, mainly bags and water bottles, but also a large amount of shoes. The parts of the shoe that are made out of cotton or leather did biodegrade but the plastic or synthetic parts, like the soles remain forever… 

For this project I have chosen to work with second hand items that are in their last stage of life... Items that are in the ‘trash-stage’. I have tried to find ways of getting dumped shoes that I find on the beach back into the cycle for a new life. From the shoes I found on the beach I created a small shoe collection by piling and combining soles and parts together into new shapes and styles.


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	Clothing PassportsBy Linda Valkeman

	&#60;img width="0" height="0" width_o="0" height_o="0" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d463bc6ad90ca9a89abbc84a423d144b475c75db5b6958bad55404f48ac4246/07_IMG_4207.jpeg" data-mid="90276089" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/0/i/0d463bc6ad90ca9a89abbc84a423d144b475c75db5b6958bad55404f48ac4246/07_IMG_4207.jpeg" /&#62;Linda Valkeman is a research-based designer who straddles the interface of design and anthropology. Defining herself as a 'Material Teller' she aims to explore how the meaning of objects, styles and aesthetic forms change over time and space.
Fashion is linked to the concept of time and memory, and defining how objects can stand the test of time. Each item that “ends up” in Kantamanto has a long story behind it from the materials used to make it to the people who designed it and sewed it to the retailer and the consumer who ultimately donated it. I started archiving the journey of specific items to track the distance traveled and to speculate on the life of the item. 
It points to the absurdity of the story behind our stuff...why does an old, damaged plastic toy has to travel 15.000 KM to end up at a market in Accra? The miles a garment travels in its lifetime in comparison to the reality that many of Kantamanto’s retailers will not have an opportunity to leave Ghana. The clothing becomes a connector between people which is beautiful in some ways but unjust in the other ways. But it makes the connection between “sender” and “receiver” more transparent, intimate, emotional...more human. 


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KANTAMANTOBy Francis Kokoroko


	Francis Kokoroko is a documentary photographer and artist with a keen interest in the politics of Africa’s recorded history. Through his photographs and artistic practice Francis documents everyday life and the ever evolving cultures on the continent while consciously questioning his role as the recorder and the medium itself.  

By documenting Kantamanto, Francis is reflecting on his existing relationship with second hand clothing and the traders at the market. Visiting this market since he was 12, he reimagines his relationship through photographs from a place of nostalgia and the unknown. 

“There is something about Kantamanto that excites me; to find! Brooding over the these finds as objects of art, culture and symbols of rejection and donation.”


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KANTABEAST 
By Carmen HoggModels: Brimah, Nigel and Dela
Photographer: Jhey too Cool


	“Kantabeast; A person whose consumption is solely based on second hand streetwear items thrifted at Kantamanto. (S)he wears unique, hard to find and in high demand second hand streetwear items and sets a sustainable trend”

Kantabeast is a small series of three young creatives from Accra that I styled in second hand items bought at Kantamanto, the second hand market in Accra. Kantabeast is a play on Hypebeast; a term often used to refer to an individual whose consumption is heavily influenced by the social status (hype) around a product which is often produced in limited quantities. I want to show that you can be a Hypebeast by wearing second hand items thrifted at Kantamanto. Kantabeast is a playful way to critique the very-unsustainable consumption culture we live in. 

Style in Accra has been on my mind since the first time I got here in 2008. The way in which people curate their style fascinates me, especially the streetwear culture and street style. Whilst the creative industry is flourishing and more brands pop up I, at the same time, see interesting ways in which youngsters integrate second hand clothes in their styles. Lovers of streetwear go to the market and find the most wanted second hand sneakers, basketball shirts and original items. Amongst the piles of fast fashion ‘trash’ good thrifters are still able to find amazing ‘gems’.&#38;nbsp;

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Untitled Tracks
Jason Kleatsh


	Apag is a shutterbug that first showed an interest in photography after his father sadly passed away and he was asked to prepare a slideshow for his wake. Although Apag is the main creative in the family his passion may have stemmed from his father’s fondness for artistic material, as well as photography.


OBRONI WA WU By Martin Peeves


For my participation in the Obroni wa wu project, I intend to engage and present a transdisciplinary Art research based response on the phenomenon and culture addressing and highlighting resolutions and responses being adapted such as second-hand clothing, upscale fashion and thrifting 

Dead People Shoes - this is part of a series of sound art explorations on the subject of Obroni Wa Wu made by Martin Peeves under the moniker @Peeveskotek. The project is based on the idea of recycling, re-using and composing new material from found sound.


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Lost &#38;amp; FoundBy Linda Valkeman


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MY DILEMMABy Eyiwaa


As an artist my imaginations run wild in almost everything I do. The uncertainly of what I will get anytime I go shopping for second hand clothes isn’t an exception and that’s where the conversation starts from; the very centre with my mind being in total darkness of the unknown. 

The suspense is exciting with a slight feeling of impatience. What will I get today? Will it be something nice and unique? Maybe I might not get anything I like, which can be disappointing at times. When I get what I want, I wonder why the previous owner rejected the item. Is it the torn buttons, spoilt zip, a stain or a bad fit? 


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SOUNDS OF OUR FEET 
A footwear sound Installation by Steloolive


	Footwear has always been the sound canvas of our feet. Sound &#38;amp; performance fashion artist Steloolive dives into Accra’s largest second hand market Kantamanto to dig out the sound bite stains that shoes imported into the space has been tagging along.

Steloolive believes these shoes have served as a recording magnetic sound device which has collected amazing sound bites from different people from different cultures and countries. That they collected stories of sounds from these people in different forms from lifestyle - on their good and bad days, their engagement with space and architecture, food, moments, etc... 

This ideology of SOUNDS OF OUR FEET can’t be heard but can only be reimagined by looking into the heart of these shoes 


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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>JAMES TOWN STREET STYLEBy Apag

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Obroni Wa Wu is a common term for secondhand clothes in Ghana meaning ‘the white man has died clothes’. This expression comes from the idea that someone would have to die to give up so much stuff, implying that the concept of excess was foreign.

Monday August 10 2020&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Kym R. — Cut and Blow — The city is a bad hairstylist — they trimmed our beautiful trees; no warning — too much sky. Mercury in retrograde. Tip = $100.00


Monday August 31 2020&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Tracy M. — Color, Cut and Blow — The new salon is brilliant. Aqueous filtered light everywhere — otherworldly. Nicholas is a master. I am broke but worth it. He even remembered the quince blossoms. Long, noble Quince flanking every station. I’m in ecstasy. Tip = $150.00
Old Wiccan Charm For Blessing Your Station


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