Windows to the Soul: Photographs Celebrating African Women - Hardcover

Fayemi, A. Olusegun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0971507627 ISBN 13: 9780971507623

Publisher: Albofa Press, 2003

Synopsis

A book of photographs that expores and documents the realities of the lives of women from Africa south of the Sahara. Divided into seven sections, (Motherhood, Home, Work, Markets, Celebration, Elderhood and Beauty and Elegance), the reader is treated to a profusion of 175 outstanding and magnificen images complemented by an anthology of creative, inspiring and thoughtful poems by 15 contributors, mostly women, that capture the essence, humanity and "wholeness and wholesomeness" of African women

About this title

About the Author:

Born and raised in Nigeria, Olusegun Fayemi studied photography privately and with Alex Harsely and Richard Sternschuss of New York, at the New School for Social Research (now New School University) and the International Center for Photography, New York, and Zone VI studios, Newfane, Vermont. For the last 22 years he has concentrated his energies on social documentary photography of continental Africans and Africans in the diaspora, a project that has taken him to 16 African countries south of the Sahara and Egypt, Haiti, Jamaica and Dominica. His photographs have been published in many books, journals, magazines and newspapers, have been exhibited widely in the United States and Nigeria, and are to be found in many public and private collections. He is the author of two successful and widely acclaimed books: "Balancing Acts: photographs from West Africa" (Sungai, Princeton, 1995) and "Voices From Within: photographs of African children" (Albofa Press, New York, 1999).

When not making photographs, he practices Medicine as a pathologist and Director of Laboratories at St Mary Hospital, Hoboken, New Jersey.

Review:

..awe-inspiring book, a photographic labor of love.. much needed text on African women. A perfect coffee-table book -- Molara Ogundipe, Professor of Englisth, Univ of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

No one can ignore the sheer delight of the collection .. a narrative of the many faces of African female culture -- Tuzyline Jita Allan, Professor of English, Baruch College, New York, NY

About this edition

• Publisher: Albofa Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0971507627
• ISBN 13: 9780971507623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193