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llapen: Anarusha by Charl Landvreugd Originally from Suriname (a former Dutch colony), Landvreugd grew up in the Netherlands. Landvreugd’s Anaruka is an air spirit. Which takes a person’s soul to the ultimate Creator on the movements of the wind an is a representation of freeing [one]self.

llapen:

Anarusha by Charl Landvreugd

Originally from Suriname (a former Dutch colony), Landvreugd grew up in the Netherlands. Landvreugd’s Anaruka is an air spirit. Which takes a person’s soul to the ultimate Creator on the movements of the wind an is a representation of freeing [one]self.

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sistahfriendsproject: Dorothy Dandridge inside Life Magazine (November 1954). she was the first black woman to make the cover of Life Magazine look at that arm cuff! //salome

sistahfriendsproject:

Dorothy Dandridge

inside Life Magazine (November 1954).

she was the first black woman to make the cover of Life Magazine

look at that arm cuff!

//salome

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening…Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

—Alice Walker (via kameelahwrites)

derica: Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America A 12-year-old in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. The window has been boarded up from the outside. The facility is operated by Mississippi Security Police, a private company. In 1982, a fire killed 27 prisoners and an ensuing lawsuit against the authorities forced them to reduce their population to maintain an 8:1 inmate to staff ratio. To see the entire photo set click here via dez-ray: deus—ex-machina:

derica:

Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America

A 12-year-old in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. The window has been boarded up from the outside. The facility is operated by Mississippi Security Police, a private company. In 1982, a fire killed 27 prisoners and an ensuing lawsuit against the authorities forced them to reduce their population to maintain an 8:1 inmate to staff ratio.

To see the entire photo set click here

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auntada: Autoportraits, Samuel Fosso’s self-portrait as an African chief, 14 Febuary 2004 Samuel Fosso (b. Kunmba, Cameroon, 1962) opened his own photography studio, out of boredom, when he was only thirteen years old. Between 1975 and 1980, Fosso took a series of self-portraits to take up extra film leftover from the day’s work. He experimented with different backdrops, costumes and props. Eventually, the portraits would win him acclaim in the art world. His work has been shown in major international venues such as the Photographers’ Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He now lives and works in Bangui, Central African Republic.

auntada:

Autoportraits, Samuel Fosso’s self-portrait as an African chief, 14 Febuary 2004

Samuel Fosso (b. Kunmba, Cameroon, 1962) opened his own photography studio, out of boredom, when he was only thirteen years old. Between 1975 and 1980, Fosso took a series of self-portraits to take up extra film leftover from the day’s work. He experimented with different backdrops, costumes and props. Eventually, the portraits would win him acclaim in the art world. His work has been shown in major international venues such as the Photographers’ Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He now lives and works in Bangui, Central African Republic.

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