It’s the end of 2018 and I have two exhibitions this week. . Two photographs from The Future is the next Breath, will be showing during Art Basel week in Miami as part of the AfroFuture exhibition. The AfroFuture event is presented…
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The Desire of Spirits – a review of “Spirit Desire” photo book by Donald Molosi In Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun, Sokari Ekine – through simultaneously real and surreal photography – invites the viewer…
The softness of thought and light, on the borderlands of time and space. See me. I am here [envira-gallery id=”4034″] Click to enlarge Photos of Tia Banks [Black Girl Masculine] copyright Sokari Ekine 2018
Excited to be part of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora exhibition at the 7th annual PhotoVille in Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York. 13th – 23rd September, 2018 MFON will be exhibiting 40 women photographers from the African diaspora as…
For the past 18 months I have been working on producing my first photo book on Haitian Vodoun. I began my journey as a documentary photographer in 2013, six years after my initial encounter with Vodou. I doubt the…
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Sisterfire festivals which began in the 1980s. Alexis regularly attended the festivals and will be present at this year’s anniversary celebration in Washington DC. Below is an excerpt from an interview with…
Communiqué, new EP by Lord Tusk, master producer, sound curator and connoisseur of unplayed and eclectic Audio Waves. A Lover of G notes and the 1 Loyal to the P 420°. 7th Communiqué is made of breathy, glossy Sci-Fi electro,…
“The score is a theoretical perspective journey infusing space, celestial mechanics and its countless motions. Peregrinate through past present and future myths contrived from factual realities” STARLARKIN OST & SCORE by LORD TUSK ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK & SCORE credits released…
I encountered Vodou as a queer Nigerian living and working in Haiti between 2010 and 2016, in the midst of rampant evangelicalism and associated homophobia and anti-Vodoun violence. In Vodoun I discovered a black queer space of beauty; both historical…
SOKARI EKINE’S “SPIRIT DESIRE” Presentation by Alexis De Veaux (“Black Portraitures III,” Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov 17-19, 2016) The series of photographs “made” by the Nigerian British, self-described black queer feminist photographer Sokari Ekine, beginning in 2013, in Haiti, usher…
London rain, 2.22pm to 2. 26pm. Southbank, 30th March 2018. Nothing unusual except if you didn’t know it before, now you do. Its the end of the world. Pale shadows hunched up, speaking in rain sodden voices. Running for shelter…
Coming through the door We feel with and through our bodies But cannot see with our eyes Transitions Herbs, insense A healer needed to cross the water Slaughter a chicken for the Gods Silver coins and a clay pot Sweet…
“Haven’t we loved and lost? Haven’t we been here and been queer?” In 2013, though black men loving black men is still a revolutionary act it also remains a dangerous act. There is no freedom without revolution and no revolution…
“The nature of Vodou is a bit like jazz : a negotiated conversation improvised between ourselves and telluric forces, variations of a theme. We are free inside a bound framework.” Fragment of Bones Inside the “Circles of Grace” are the…
Lost imagination. This is the scariest thing that has happened to me, scarier than cancer. It’s death I thought I had lost my imagination then I found it because I read this and I breathed “One of the most powerful…