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Mrs Nobody

(Ode to all the sisters out there)

Mrs Nobody slept all the time

Not feeling like doing anything

Going anywhere, seeing nobody

Her friends told her to go to see somebody

But Mrs Nobody doesn’t think that

Talking to a stranger will bring her anywhere

Mrs Nobody slept everywhere with anybody

Waiting for someone to somehow

Take her somewhere

Mrs Nobody would give anything

To feel that something, that something they all talk about

At School Mrs Nobody was always everywhere

But not there, not here

Mrs Nobody finally met someone

Someone who loves

Someone who is not afraid of the big jump into nowhere.

With that somebody, they have been doing everything

Fucking everywhere, not caring about anybody.

Mrs Nobody starts feeling like somebody

Independently of her relationship

She wants to accomplish something

She wanna be someone out there,

You know dream big and do big,

Plant her fucking flag and say:

Mrs Somebody was there!

About the Author

Médine Tidou is a French-Ivorian photographer based in Berlin.

Specialized in street, documentary and conceptual photography, the subject matter of Médine’s photographs oscillates between questions of non-binary or gender identity, sexual, cultural and social inequities reshaped as figures of empowerment.

With a focus on female figures, Médine Tidou works between street and studio. Drawing from observations in public spaces across Africa and Europe, she examines how women are seen and positioned, then reworks those realities through constructed images that engage political and decolonial questions. Her practice moves between street observation and conceptual staging, grounded in identity, cultural reflections, post-colonial memory, and the ongoing negotiation of presence, using for instance colonial building ruins as canvas for her photoshoots or showcasing African brands and artists in her conceptual compositions.  

@m.tidou