Passages exhibit at the Bowers Museum

I went to the Bowers Museum yesterday with Erica. She kept saying all week that she wanted to go to see an exhibit at the Bowers, and she usually doesn't ask to see any specific exhibit at a specific museum. The first sunday is free, and it doesn't take much twisting of my arm to see any museum for free, so we went. Turns out there was this awesome cultural photography exhibit of African ceremony and rituals by two National Geographic photographers.


Passages: Photographs of Africa by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher
November 15, 2008 – August 16, 2009

Presented in large format color photographs, photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s images of African ritual practices are vivid, rich, intimate and intense. This dynamic exhibition of images from around the African continent is divided into six themes: Coming of Age, Courtship and Marriage, Beliefs and Worship, Masks and Masquerades, Royalty and Power, and Spirits and Ancestors. Six videos bring to life the song, dance and movement of related ceremonies and, objects of personal adornment similar to those as in the photographs will be included. Three-dimensional objects from the Bowers Museum’s permanent collection of African objects will also be on display. Beckwith and Fisher have traveled and lived within Africa together and independently over the last thirty years prolifically documenting tradition and ceremony.


National Geographic Interview









Looking back on all these images, I can really relate to these photographer's work when I was in Russia, documenting the lives of Russian orphans. I was there for a total of a few weeks, they were there for over twenty years!
Hmm...maybe I can get my book published...