The beautiful old library inside Wells Cathedral, England
Poofy party was awesome! #MyHairIsPoofyAndThatsOkay 😃📚🚀 thank you guys! (at CRYSTAL Children & Teacher Supply On 59 S)
Ballet in Kibera photo exhibition in Nairobi
Ballet in Kibera’ is an exhibition of photographs taken by Sarah Waiswa and Fredrik Lerneryd. The photographers took photos of the ballet programme run by Anno’s Africa and One Fine Day during their rehearsals and their performances.
In one photograph, a girl in a self-assured poise looks away from the camera. She is poised as if in between dance moves, and as if the rest of the world given the chance to look at her only through the photographer’s lens does not matter at all.
“I was really interested in photographing the girls in such a way that I was able to somewhat document this transformation that I could see happening as they were dancing. As they were dancing there was this confidence, this moment where nothing really mattered except them kind of expressing themselves through dance,” says Ms. Waiswa.
One challenge in photography, especially that of people with disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, is that those photographed often lose agency over their stories.
Ms Waiswa and Mr Lerneryd negotiate this by centring the children through their I-am-in-charge gazes and their focus on the dancing in spite of other people.
Lerneryd is drawn to the story because of the contrasts it presents. “First of all,” he says, “ballet is viewed, at least for me, as an upper class kind of dance. I didn’t expect to find it in a settlement like Kibera.” Visually, the leotards, tights, and tutus bring splashes of color into the dark classroom. And, Lerneryd emphasizes, “it’s a story about the dream, the hope, of achieving something bigger than the ordinary life” they would have in Kibera.
Superb Illustrated Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there
This edition published in 1911 is the first time John Tenniel’s legendary illustrations were printed in colour
sadly the original covers are faded and marked as shown in the photos - but the contents are beautiful fresh and clean
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