1.99 | PRIVATE 36 | 2007
Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.
Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.
in high regard / I hold him / his excellence emerges / from many places / untold faces of wisdom / deep-rooted in the earth…
What is to become of me / I wonder as I breathe / Pondering / The hands of time / How swiftly it passes by / Evaporating…
Near the riverbank where we / Buried her, I light a candle / And wait, patient as a hunter / Detecting what the beast will do / In the next moment…
Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.
Beautiful / Spirit of the night / Her shadow appears / abstract– / As her body contours / under the moonlight / She does the nagla dance / With beads dangling between her breasts…
Mama Afrika / Make me a necklace / Of shiny malachite beads and brass spheres / That will mark me / Queen of the jungle– / Queen of romance– / Groom me for womanhood– / Mama Afrika / Make me a necklace…
