Category: documentary work
Bends in an Arc
Funnel Cakes, Pmurt, Winchester, Virginia. August, 2020. Have you tried to keep track of one wavelet moving across a lake’s rippling surface? We are less than one hundred days away from the U.S. presidential election. This will be the fifth one in which I cast my vote, as a naturalized citizen. To be an American […]
Photographing Catching Nothing, Capturing the Heavens
Photographing ‘Catching Nothing, Capturing the Heavens‘ On Susuni Mountain, Wanchari clan, near Tarime, Tanzania, 2018. We were about 1° South of the Equator, and a few miles away from the Kenyan border. It had been long day, a lot had been done within a very small window of time, but there were just a few […]
Photographing ‘Occlusion’
Photographing some black barked acacia trees for ‘Occlusion’, Lake Manyara, 8:48 AM, July 25, 2018, Lake Manyara, 8:48 AM, July 25, 2018. A friend just mentioned an ‘alternative’ process photography foundation, bringing my thoughts to the relationship between process and art. I find so much of what is shown in museums and galleries to be […]
Photographing two friends on Susuni Mountain
Studying, while her elders have a meeting about FGC, Susuni village, near Tarime, Tanzania. July, 2018. The two young women in the photograph, What Was Ours, were still at school. Here, one of them continued doing her homework while her community elders and a number of anti-female genital cutting activists discussed traditional and changing practices […]
Photographing the Cutting Trees
While photographing the cutting trees near Mundemu, TZ, August, 2017. Sarah Mwaga took me to visit a team of AFNET (Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Network) educators and facilitators in Mundemu. As we talked about how they were sensitizing their communities to the harmful practice of FGM, and bringing about a change of attitude, they spoke of […]
Seeking Permission
Atanassi Nyoho, an Elder of the Wachari Clan, Tarime, during discussions about FGC and permission to access the sacred site on Susuni Mountain, in Tarime, Tanzania, 2018. Mr. Nyoho was one of four clan elders with whom we spent the better part of a day gently explaining our work and negotiating for permission to access […]