Musician, Dakar 2010
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So I decided to make a postcard in honor of my recent trip to Senegal. The Postcard Project is my attempt to create tangible works of art in this digital age. Each series is limited to 100 pieces and has a personal message from me to you! All you need to do is [...] A North Korean attends the unveiling of the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar. The Rev Herbert Daughtry Sr. takes a moment in Senegal A poster on Goree Island. During the slave trade this is the last place many Africans were held before being shipped to the Americas. To see more please click on this link. Graffiti on Goree Island, Senegal.
Hostess Yaune Ndiaye. Dakar, April 2010 To see more please click on this link. I just got back from Senegal where I spent three days documenting that nation’s celebrations of the new African Renaissance Monument as well as the 50th anniversary of independence. This week I will feature images from that [...]
Masai farmer. Tanzania 2006. © Damaso Reyes I’m heading to Senegal for a short trip! I will post photos as I make them so stay tuned. See you next week! Rwandans search for mass graves during the 10 anniversary of the genocide. [...]
Student. Zanizibar, Tanzania 2006 © Damaso Reyes To see more images from Tanzania please visit my website. A victim of sexual violence during the genocide in Rwanda tells her [...]
Children at a reeducation center in Rwanda. May 1999. © Damaso Reyes To see more images from Rwanda please visit my website. But the road is dark. Fear will be your constant companion; uncertainty the jacket you wrap yourself in to protect against the night. I’ve come to live with these things, to accept, if not love, the feelings I get when I board a plane or train or boat destined for a foreign land armed only with the hope that if everything goes right I might have a chance. Of course often the best laid plans do often go astray. You find yourself off the map, not quite where dragons lie but close [...] The space in which long form and documentary photojournalism exists is continuing to shrink and until the next venue which can support this work becomes a reality more and more people are leaving this field. Of even more concern is that while there are many committed photojournalists who stubbornly keep doing the work that is important to them it is increasingly becoming difficult to do that work. If a story is too obscure, too far away or not in a hot spot, no one, at least in the newspaper and magazine world, wants to pay for [...] |
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