Keep doing the good work! Beautiful!
Keep doing the good work! Beautiful!
I am fangirling a bit here because I love your work so much. It is SO IMPORTANT. Please never stop! Your talent and your way with people is incomparable, and your subject matter is becoming more and more crucial to the national consciousness. Thank you for what you do and for you reply!
I live in Florida and have been following her for a while and i honestly wondered who was behind the camera. She came in to ft pierce (where Zora Neal Hurston lived out the last years of her life in poverty and then was buried unceremoniously...), where I used to live, and did an amazing series of photos of a very…
Thank you for introducing us to Ms. Rahaman’s work. I can’t handle the daily awfulness of the Trump administration and I appreciate the beauties ordinary people are finding in their communities and sharing them. Good work.
I love these kinds of projects that capture the spirit of a community. I hadn’t stopped to think that I’ve never really seen one depicting modern black America.
I made a burner just to say that I’m so sick of seeing sympathetic or uncritical profiles of Trump voters as though they haven’t been getting attention for over a year now.
Born & raised. I love this so much.
EATONVILLE! I love it!
The Little Haiti pictures are my favorites. Struggle, victory, pride, fortune- all represented in many of the faces in the Little Haiti gallery.
this is super cool. she may not consider herself a “professional” but her photos are amazing. thanks for featuring this stassa!
It’s amazing how you can see so many beautiful dark skin women and girls in reality but barely (until more recently) in representation. Almost as if we are a rarity in the black community.
Too bad the photos - either shot or shown here - don’t show more dimension or more description of the communities or how people interact in social and/or cultural situations.
Thanks for this piece, Stassa! The beauty of visibility in this project is welcome in this brave new world.
Sighhhh, beautiful.
These portraits are FANTASTIC.
OMG this is AMAZING.
Johanne Rahaman is used to being invisible. Before she was a resident, and finally a citizen of the United States,…