Osu Beach - Accra, Ghana - January, 2020

Clothing Where it Doesn't Belong: The Sea. Captured by The OR Foundation at Osu Beach in January of 2020, Secondhand Clothing Waste dumped into the the local market by exporters from the Global North overflows onto Accra's beaches and into the ocean. Osu Beach was once a site where people were forced captive into ships, enslaved across the Atlantic Ocean, in large part to work in cotton fields. Today the beach and the community around around see another side of the same cycle of exploitation – the violent excess of clothing that wreaks environmental and socio-economic damage throughout West Africa and around the world.