My Peoples
There are photographs you take because of light or timing or luck. And then there are the ones that take hold of you. This is that photo for me. It’s a portrait of my mum. My only parent. A single mother. Taken just months before she passed away in
My Peoples
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain About four years ago I was on a photo walk in downtown Atlanta. I came to an intersection and across the street I see this brother walking with the unmistakable bop of a free man carrying a little
My Peoples
The Black gaze is relatable, humanistic, empathetic, authentic, truthful, inclusive, defiant. My father Stephen Kofi Adu-Sanyah became a victim of a tragic surgical mistake in a German hospital in 2016. The doctors didn’t provide him with a blood transfusion during surgery, and let my father bleed out in front
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