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#transformation #unitedstatesofdrag #documentary #gay #mediumformat #hasselblad #dragqueen #drag #LGBTQ #queer

#hasselblad #mediumformat #gay #unitedstatesofdrag #lgbtq #drag #dragqueen #documentary #transformation

Sol Aramendi is an absolute force. Community smarts, a big heart and bloody hardwork makes her THE instigator for photography and inquiry among the immigrants living in New York city. Project Luz, an organization she founded, delivers photography workshops. Most are conducted with residents of Queens — the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.

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“We learn through art but mostly we’re getting to know the city,” says Aramendi. “The photography is an excuse!”

“Immigrants come here and they live in an imaginary space. They want to come here, but they don’t “arrive” here. They are in limbo. Through storytelling, I help them to imagine a more *real* place and being. I want them to feel a belonging to the city and to the spaces.”

“I had a woman who had lived here for 8 years but she did not know Manhattan. Migrants travel all this way, across borders, and then they are paralyzed in the place that they are. They don’t know more than 10 blocks around. Little by little they discover their own potential. After our MoMA visit, one student asked “Do we have another VIP tour, this week?””

“People change themselves. We open a door and from there, they walk themselves. Many of them live subject to stereotypes. Understandably, some of them are embarrassed but they can know their community and space by describing it.”

picking #jasmine from my project in #tamilnadu #india #hasselblad #latergram #film

#hasselblad #jasmine #india #latergram #tamilnadu #film

re-editing #kothi work from the past 18 months and scanning in new frames from my recent trip. #india #hasselblad #cuddalore #tamilnadu

#cuddalore #kothi #hasselblad #india #tamilnadu

babysitting, wayne county fair

pennsylvania

august 2014

#county fair #stuffed animal #hasselblad #medium format #6x6 #film

watering cows - north stonington fair. CT. july 2014.

#photography #cows #animals #county fair #hasselbl #medium format

humansofnewyork

“The economy’s tough. They say that to stay relevant in the job market, you’re supposed to reinvent yourself every five years. What the hell is that supposed to mean? I haven’t invented myself once!”

natural history

maputo, mozambique

2012

boutique - grand popo, benin

september 2013

#benin #grand popo #portrait #film #medium format #6x6 #photography #photographers on tumblr #hasselblad

pingpong porto novo, benin

september 2013

#benin #pingpong #table tennis #photographers on tumblr #portrait #medium format #hasselblad #west africa

miss-bazaar

nokiabae

Soweto/Sowebo - Martha Cooper

Soweto is a big city on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Sowebo is a small neighbourhood in downtown Baltimore (where ‘The Wire’ is based on).

Like Soweto, Sowebo played a historic role in the fight for racial equality.

After the Tragic assassination of Martin Luther King there was a massive black uprising in Baltimore leaving many white shop owners to flea the area. More than 40 years later most of these establishments remain abandoned. Because of it’s desolate nature, someone decided to nickname the neighbourhood ‘Sowebo’ after Soweto and the name stuck.

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SOWETO / SOWEBO