New Years Eve Armageddon & Ginormous Cumulonimbus
(Source: sincerelyybrianna, via fly-away-owly)
Benedicte Desrus:
UGANDA: Persecution of homosexuality
This photo Documentary is an enthralling series of photos where Desrus takes portraits and scenes that have captions about the bill. Over 85% of Ugandans are homophobic, under the Anti-homosexuality bill signed by David Bahati, anyone accused of ‘aggravated homosexuality’ or ‘un-natural sex’, could be sentenced to life imprisonment or a death penalty. I love how this photography captures the emotions suffered by gay Ugandans as well as the utter hatred from the other side bringing the viewer in sympathetically.
I have recently done a series of portraits exploring this law but for privacy reasons, cannot put them on the Internet yet.
Nuestra Hermana’s WOC Photography Series: Zanele Muholi
In 1972, Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi Durban. After completing an Advanced Photography Course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newton, she held her first exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2004. She most recently earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in 2009.She worked as a reporter and photographer for Behind The Mask an LGBTQI African magazine tackling queer community issues and visibility. In 2002, she began FEW (Forum For The Empowerment of Women), an organization providing a safe space for black queer women to discuss and organize.
Her photographic work is deeply rooted in both exposing the issues affecting the lives of African lesbians, African women and the black queer community. Her photographic art challenges the usual portrayal of black bodies. Her work has addressed and brought visibility to HIV/AIDS, assault and the violent crime of “curative rape” against black queers.
Her work is intimate, honest, raw and emotionally charged.
She has held 6 solo exhibitions and has been part of several exhibits. One of her most well known being her first solo exhibit titled ‘Visual Sexuality: Only Half The Picture’. She has received 6 awards and contributions including the Tollman Award for Visual Arts and the Casa Africa award for Best Female Photographer.
You can learn more about her and her work by checking her website HERE.
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(Please do not remove this article/bio attached to this photoset. This series is written specifically to promote & educate about POC photographers/QPOC/POC issues.)
Muholi has been a huge influence to my Documentary project on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. It was great to see her photos in the flesh alongside other photographers at the V & A, they really gave an insight to political issues in Africa.
(via blackcontemporaryart)
Sneak peek of my Documentary photography exhibition about the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda.
Private view on 23rd May, 2013 at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
Diana
A very starry night sky on Bulago island
First meeting with anti-gay Pastor
I’m meeting the famous Ugandan Pastor, Martin Ssempa, who was in a YouTube video that went viral a couple of years ago.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w)
I’m interviewing him for my photo-documentary project about Uganda’s anti-gay bill but I somehow need to argue that homosexuality actually isn’t all that he says it is. Apparently finding some very disturbing gay porn and accusing homosexual’s of being disgusting and wrong is more important than helping a very poverty stricken country.
I obviously don’t want to offend his religion, and I’m interested to hear his argument, but I need to find a way of contradicting what the Bible says about homosexuality sensitively and prove to him that homosexuals aren’t influenced by the Western world. Scientists and Psychologists have proved that homosexuality isn’t nurtured and the majority or children brought up by two gay parents turn out heterosexual and there is much more evidence of homosexuality from hundreds of years ago, but is this enough to change his mind?
(Source: phoebebatchelor)
Building swallowed by fog
