I love puffy down jackets. I love them so much that as soon as I hear it is cold somewhere, ANYWHERE in Arizona, I promptly get my oil changed in my old ’91 Volvo station wagon and head to the crisp cool air to yes, play, … Read More →
Monthly Archives: October 2010
10.29.19 Photographing The Musical Tribes
Some people are born in clean, white hospitals. I was born on a bean bag chair in my mother’s house on a record hot day in Arizona. Instead of the sound of machines that I imagine hospital rooms contain, there was the soft music of my mother’s … Read More →
10.27.10 Photographing my Pot-Luck Tribe
My name is Yari Bangoura, and you do not know my story. I was born into a Lucky-Pot. It was an old, well seasoned cast iron Lucky-Pot that over time had fed well over 5000 people in my village. Whenever someone ate out of this … Read More →
10.20.10 Photographing a Child Born into Drum and Dance
The first time I met Maisha she was safely and warmly curled up inside of Heidi’s belly like a little kangaroo in Taos, New Mexico. Heidi had come to my dance class in Taos to bring a guest teacher and she was juicy and ripe … Read More →
10.16.10 Photographs of the Mother Land
The first time i landed on her red-tinted soil, my entire selfish world changed. I silenced my words and opened my eyes and learned how to live every day with the key ingredient: Love. I daydream about returning to Africa, primarily west Africa, almost every day. These … Read More →
10.14.10 Photographing The Jungle of My Spirit
The first time my feet landed on her, The Rich Coast de Costa Rica was in 1998. I was 18 and it was almost my birthday. I had driven across the Nicaragua border into Costa Rica with big dreams of Jungle exploration, dancing naked on unpopulated … Read More →
10.14.10 Photographing Hard Work
Click here to open the gallery. Blackie is in his mid seventies, has somewhere around 13 children and works hard landscaping in the Sonoran desert heat… His skin is a road map of countless tales and i feel that his heart is visible through his … Read More →
10.13.10 Photographing the Re-Defining of the Word “Goddess”
Do you believe that one’s realities is shaped by one’s beliefs? Do you know how powerful you, the person reading these lines, are? Do you know that there is no-one else on this planet like you and that the space on the outside of your skin … Read More →
10.10.10 Photographing a Son who loves his Mother: For Real.
I know Robert as Swami. I know his mom as Mom. I know Swami because we have a very deep and common passion-love: West and Central African dance and drumming. I have been blessed to share this common love through dance classes and performances with Swami for … Read More →