Paul Shemisi

Paul Shemisi

Biography

Paul Shemisi is a photographer, documentary filmmaker and hip-hop poet. His work, whether as a poet or behind the camera, shows his Kinshasa: an artistically flourishing cosmopolitan city with an incomparable inventiveness, the daily weapon of resistance and the engine of resilience for the population. He will offer hip-hop workshops in French at schools in Cologne, which aims to use a foreign language in a playful way and as a tool for empowerment.