I really wanted the last episode of The AYA TALKS the podcast-formatted audio series produced by our communication consulting firm to end on a note that would resonate with creatives, especially Black women creatives because after all the aim of the series was to begin to sketch a / the world in which Black women…Read more »
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When Our Future is Now: Meet Anna Tjé, Cameroonian-French Transdisciplinary Artist, Performer & Scholar
The ‘funny’ thing to note about The AYA TALKS series is the interconnectedness of our experiences, the way our personal stories and professional journeys intertwine, join, align. A thriving community is one where its members know and celebrate each other in this time and the next, irrespective of the space(s) in which we get to…Read more »
FEMINIST PARENTING & EXQUISITE BLACK PHOTOGRAPHY: MEET FRENCH CARIBBEAN STYLIST & PHOTOGRAPHER, VIOLETTE TANNENBAUM
The eighth episode of the audio series, THE AYA TALKS, has made one thing absolutely clear. Women are magical. I am not saying that to flatter or sound trendy. Women are endowed with powers that defy logic and reason. I recall how Prisca Munkeni Monnier, the sultry and enormously gifted photographer put it in our…Read more »
He Installs Confidence and Picks Her Brain Like a Salad*
I wanted to start the new year writing about something that compels me, something that moves me deeply but also something that gives me hope because honestly, Barack made a hit urging us to believe and to hope but I do wonder how much hope we can honestly spruce up in this day and age. …Read more »
Portrait of a Different Kind: Meet Makhúkhú Molepo, South African Architect and Photographer
There is something raw, but also fragile in the eyes of Makhúkhú Molepo. Khú, as he also likes to be called, first told me that he understands photography through architecture and that his fascination with the latter comes from his intent studying of light when captured in the brevity of the moment. It is the…Read more »