Post by Cara Waterfall
Poet & Mentor | Building Toward Gate-Free Literary Futures
✨🎨 📸 Enter the luminous & intricate world of Joana Choumali , an Ivoirian visionary whose photography and visual art transcends boundaries. 📸 Her intimate and unflinching portraits of female charcoal makers in San Pedro were the catalyst for my poem "Sissi Barra". Through her photography series,"Sissi Barra (The Work of Smoke)", she reveals how these resilient women sustain their families through backbreaking labour. 🧵Her hand-embroidered photo series "Ça va aller" honours the city of Grand Bassam after the March 2016 terrorist attacks and inspired my poem “Grand Bassam Saudade”. She captured the aftermath of the attacks in portraits that illuminate the melancholy and loneliness pervading this coastal city. Read more about Joana here: https://joanachoumali.com/ #Cotedivoire #Photography #ArtAndHealing #WomxnArtists #IvoirianWomx #DocumentaryPhotography #VisualStorytelling #Ekphrasticpoets #Poetry #ContemporaryArt #AfricanArtists #ArtisticInspiration #VisualArt #CreativeProcess #ArtAndPoetry
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