The former village of Wilhelmsburg, located on the south bank of the river Elbe, is today Hamburg's most multicultural part of town. People from more than 30 nations call it their home, and of course have brought here their traditions, their foods, their music and their religions: Gius from Nigeria, aged 34 and married to a German, is one of them.
On a late summer sunday this September, Gius took his youngest child, a baby boy, to what his free Christian church (The Harvest Time Ministries) calls a "child dedication". It is not a baptism in the strict sense, but a welcome ritual with truely African flavour: songs, chants, dancing, colourful dresses and spicey foods.
These photographs were taken for my series The Gods of Hamburg.
