The Little Things...

I’ve been away for a bit, but only because Vocal Lens has been working on our first exhibit, “Through Our Lens: Dancers at MHC”!!! Check out our Facebook page (Vocal Lens Photography) for more details!
In the meantime, here’s one of the shots :)

dynamicafrica:

“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”

“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: “He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”

“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.”

“When the British came to Igbo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.”

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”

“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”

“I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them”

“That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.”

RIP Chinua Achebe.

Chinua Achebe

(via africaninsights)

One summer evening.

Oluwatimilehin..Timi

Upcoming Nigerian rap artist…singer…friend.

Seyiram, you’re beautiful. Seyi’s also an awesome artist, you should check out her tumblr - here.

So I’ve discovered that each day that I start by editing a picture and getting so deeply involved in getting every tone and every shade just the way I envision, it becomes easier for me to do other tasks that I need to do after that. Maybe it’s because I feel so fulfilled, maybe I’m just high off the reminder that there’s something I do pretty well and so I can do other things if I try. Photography’s good for me : )

Selassie 

So I’m at this stage where I’m hung up on one project (The Dancer Shoot, big project by Vocal Lens) and I’m the sort of person who won’t touch another project till I’m done with the first (this has to change). So in order to not hold up all the other work I could be doing, I’ll try to put out at least one image a day. Beginning with this shot of Selassie, taken before International Day at church. Therefore! keep an eye out..I’ve got a couple of promising shots coming your way :)

joekenneth:

“Rafters”
There are souls hanging on telephone wires in the hood from calls that were not made quick enough to warn black boys from walking down the wrong block where the chambers in firearms were cocked. And the sounds of singing sirens signaled that another cardiac clock had stopped. Sorrow has borrowed the attention of our ears. We mourn in forced stillness. For his time is…up. In rafters. An elevated, nameless, tombstone that glows from light poles. I fear what the night shows and yet find faith in the darkness behind the pulled curtains covering my pupils as my eyes close. To pray for the drug dealers and prostitutes who obey those hovering codes. In hopes that they will find shoes that will help them walk to find truth…

Beautiful

(via streetetiquette)

Emmanuella, modeling for me in a test shot on a Sunday after Church.

e-lalease:

#WarsanShire

Just discovered the poetry of #warsanshire deep and beautiful, and I haven’t even started yet.