Huge swarms fill the sky shortly before sunrise. Night after night during grasshopper season, people stay awake until dawn, waiting. Moments of stillness stretch into sudden bursts of frantic activity—lights, noise, bodies moving in the dark.
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In Uganda, grasshoppers are both food and commodity, a source of protein long embedded in local culture and now increasingly framed within global conversations around sustainability. Yet environmental changes and deforestation are rapidly altering these migratory cycles.
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Through a cinematic and atmospheric visual language, Michele Sibiloni documents the grasshopper harvest as a space suspended between tradition and acceleration, survival and speculation.
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Shot over multiple seasons, the work observes not only a ritual, but the tension between a disappearing ecosystem and a future still being negotiated.