Haabre: The Last Generation | Joana Choumali
Publisher: Fourthwall (2016)
ISBN: 9780992240493
Condition: As New
Binding: Hardcover without DJ
Pages: Unpaginated
Dimensions: 28.5 x 23.5 x 1.8cm
SKU: IZc0830
Weight: 1kg
Price: R185,00
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by Joana Choumali
+++ A series of portraits of people who represent perhaps the last generation to bear the ritual scarification associated with a number of ethnic groups in various parts of West Africa. These lush images, shot in Choumali’s studio in Abidjan, are accompanied by excerpts of interviews conducted by Choumali with her sitters, which reveal a range of responses to scarification, from pride to ambivalence and even outright rejection of the facial markings. These portraits and texts examine the complex role of tradition in an urban setting such as Abidjan and suggest the shifting nature of the concepts of beauty and identity.