Takassa: rescuing our truths through cleansing & consciousness – Photo, Kenya
“Takassa: rescuing our truths through cleansing & consciousness” is a visual and textual collaboration between myself and Kenyan QLGBTI activist, Layla Wangari Two of twelve portraits in this series – June 2017. …
Spirit Desire and the Persistence of Blackness in Haitian Vodoun by Alexis De Veaux
Spirit Desire and the Persistence of Blackness in Haitian Vodoun 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…
Black Portraitures: Levitating in Blackness
In preparing these photos I wanted to think of Black[Roes], those who are engaged with levitating in and with Blackness. All were taken during the week of Black Portraitures III in Johannesburg November 2016. Some were taken at the event,…
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Photo Stories 2019 [8:] From the M Archives – 1
that was when the people realized there had to be something after giving up, because there were no more places to leave. what do you do with a plant of excuses, scarred in unwelcome, inviting only absence? X marks the…
The Tenderness of Desire
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Spirit Desire and the Persistence of Blackness in Haitian Vodoun
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…
Rain Walker
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…
Saida : “Dance the Secret”
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…
Dance of Salt – Ayiti
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…
Takassa: rescuing our truths through cleansing & consciousness – Photo, Kenya
“Takassa: rescuing our truths through cleansing & consciousness” is a visual and textual collaboration between myself and Kenyan QLGBTI activist, Layla Wangari Two of twelve portraits in this series – June 2017. [envira-gallery id=”3558″] Images © Sokari Ekine In…
Tana Delta Erosion: The Future in Real Time
I recently spent 26 days in Kenya traveling the coastal towns and villages north of Mombasa with Kenyan Queer activist Layla Laura Wangari where we spent time engaging with LGBTIQGNC identified communities. Our intention was to create a textual and…
Lovership – We are sacred space
Julia Sangodare Roxanne Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs – the third in the series transformation of silence into action whether through speech, words, images or performance. We are sacred space. We amplify love for one another, as each other. This…
Photography futures – Whats happening for me
2016 is proving to be an exciting year for me and journey into photography. My GoFundMe campaign ‘Spirit Desire‘ has so far raised $3,600 in just over 6 weeks. However, I still need another $1,400 to reach my goal…
Spiritual Breathing, 1.
I recently sat down with Kagendo Murungi to discuss my photo documentary on Haitian Vodoun “Spirit Desire: – Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun”. Kagendo filmed the conversation and we now have 5 clips which are part of my…
Spirit Desire “Dlo sous lavi a”
I think of water and its significance to Blackness, to the Africas. The tens of thousands of enslaved women, men and children, thrown to the Atlantic; the thousands drowned in crossings, forced from their homes to die of hope in…
The exquisite corpse drinks the sweet wine: 1 – Time to the Lover : A Photographic Poem
[envira-gallery id=”3033″] What does love say to death with the touch of black leather When the writing hand breathes this too we want more Time to the lover becomes an anxiety of parting Not knowing where it can touch I…
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