Tag: FGM/C
From Where Loss Comes
“From Where Loss Comes asks us to hold in the same visual space love and violence, sacrifice and gain, mutilation and beauty, personal loss and community belonging. In a deeply sensitive, sobering collection of photographs, Malde captures the humanity contained in a fundamentally inhumane practice and compels viewers to linger with their own self-reflection of how they may bring hurt even as they care.” — Dr. Linda Mayes, the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director of the Yale Child Study Center.
Kigundu 3
Kigundu 3, front A hand-forged cutting tool that has been passed down several generations, Dodoma, Tanzania, 2017. Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negative Printed 2018 10″x8″ This is the nineteenth image in ‘From Where Loss Comes’, a photographic series about female genital cutting and sacrifice. The […]
Kigundu 7
Kigundu 7, front A cutting tool that was passed down several generations Dodoma, Tanzania, 2017 Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negative Printed 2018 10″x8″ This is the sixteenth image in ‘From Where Loss Comes’, a photographic series about female genital cutting and sacrifice. The series is […]
Kigundu
Kigundu A cutting tool in goat skin Scabbard, Dodoma, Tanzania, August 9, 2017 Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negative Printed 2018 10″x8″ This is the fourteenth image of ‘From Where Loss Comes’, a photographic series about female genital cutting and sacrifice. The series is published here […]
Pembe, Opening
Pembe, Opening A cow horn, used as a container to store medicines and potions for genital cutting, Dodoma, Tanzania, 2017. Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negative Printed 2018 10″x8″ This is the tenth image of ‘From Where Loss Comes’, a photographic series about female genital cutting […]
Kibuyu ‘A’
Kibuyu ‘A’ A Calabash gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, with snake skin collar and a dip stick stopper, used for medicine that is applied to wounds after genital cutting. Approximately 15cm x 15cm x 23cm, Dodoma, Tanzania, 2017. Scan of a Platinum-palladium print on Reich CT48 Translucent paper, from an 8×10 inch negative Printed 2018 10″x8″ This […]