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By (author) Antola Jessica
Jessica Antola’s first monograph is a vibrant journey through Sub-Saharan Africa.Traveling mostly by car, she captures the distinctive style and beauty of everydaylife in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Togo. Herstriking portraits, landscapes, and vignettes offer an intimate view of life lived inrural villages, big cities, and along the remote roadways between the two. Mendressed head to toe in elaborate African wax textiles share a motorcycle, ancestralspirits bridge earthly and supernatural worlds in masked dances, the rich red soildusts the lush tropical jungle, a girl in an oversized straw hat steers her boat with aboldly patterned patchwork sail, and a gold jewelry-clad Kumasi King performs awarrior dance. Just as Antola is captivated by how people around the world expressthemselves in relation to their environments, so do these images reflect this: theastonishing variety of ways people create and define themselves daily, over and overagain, through dress and ritual, work and play.
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Jessica Antola”s first monograph is a vibrant journey through Sub-Saharan Africa.Traveling mostly by car, she captures the distinctive style and beauty of everydaylife in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d”Ivoire, Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Togo. Herstriking portraits, landscapes, and vignettes offer an intimate view of life lived inrural villages, big cities, and along the remote roadways between the two. Mendressed head to toe in elaborate African wax textiles share a motorcycle, ancestralspirits bridge earthly and supernatural worlds in masked dances, the rich red soildusts the lush tropical jungle, a girl in an oversized straw hat steers her boat with aboldly patterned patchwork sail, and a gold jewelry-clad Kumasi King performs awarrior dance. Just as Antola is captivated by how people around the world expressthemselves in relation to their environments, so do these images reflect this: theastonishing variety of ways people create and define themselves daily, over and overagain, through dress and ritual, work and play
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