Dromo 002 - Don Claude
dromo, a deeply personal zine by photographer and visual artist Claudio Eshun (aka Don Claude), created as an exploration of identity, migration, and cultural roots. Self-published following his shortlisting for the 11th Kassel Dummy Award in 2020, dromo brings together expressive portraiture and archival imagery to celebrate Black narratives, especially those of first-generation immigrants of African descent
The title, dromo, means grace in Ga-Dangme (Ga), a nod to Eshun’s Ghanaian heritage and a collaboration with his mother and their home language. Through a visual dialogue that spans Ghana, Italy, and the United States, the zine weaves familial history with themes of adaptation, alienation, and assimilation.
Eshun’s process blends found, collected, and newly made photographs—crafted in evocative tableaus featuring friends and family—to stage emotional narratives rooted in his experience as an African, Black man in America. dromo is a visual manifesto: making “the invisible, visible” and sharing intimate reflections on identity, grace, and belonging