Sami Okafor-Reyes

Lagos / Madrid

Sami Okafor-Reyes is a reporter who writes long-form pieces about work, food and movement. Born in Lagos and based in Madrid, he has followed harvest crews, night-shift bakers and removal vans for magazines in English and Spanish. He reports slowly, returning to the same people over several seasons before he writes anything down, and he keeps his notebooks in a shoebox labelled by year.

ENES

Published on HANEEN

Stacked wooden crates of ripe tomatoes at the edge of a field in low evening light

TRAVEL & REPORTAGE

Harvest Notes from a Borrowed Field

The field belongs to a family who have not farmed for two generations. It is rented by a cooperative and picked by a crew who know it better than anyone. Three weeks of notes from a harvest on borrowed land.

A stairwell in an old apartment building with afternoon light falling on taped cardboard boxes

TRAVEL & REPORTAGE

Nine Addresses in Four Years

A reporter lists every place he has lived since arriving in Madrid, and finds that the list does not add up to a home. Notes on rooms, rents and the things that survived every move.