Indigo Stories

Photographer & youth worker. Remembering & reclaiming. indigostories.net

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Photos by Sehar Sufi (@indigostories_)

Protestors gather outside The Galleria in Houston, TX demanding a permanent cease to Israel’s relentless bombing campaign in Gaza. 25,000 + Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes. Read that over again. 10,000 + children brushed to bits. Read that over again. We won’t stop at a ceasefire. We want the end of Israel’s illegal and brutal occupation of Gaza. @agelessphotography @heritageposts @photojournalisms-blog

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we are all assigning meaning to what we capture. you can usually find it in the framing, among other elements of a photograph. the framing gives a little glimpse into what the photographer wants to convey. if anything, i hope my photos give you plenty to contemplate and wonder about • https://www.instagram.com/p/CK5XXPOg0ic/?igshid=4j62wtoistzb

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Al-Wahhab

Even when i’m purposefully looking elsewhere,

my Lord is present.

He doesn’t look away,

casting shame.

Only I do that.

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🧚🏽‍♂️ (at La-la Land) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeHv5oAdBu/?igshid=xyv9uqlheqb8

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Community

Communities celebrate, congregate and cultivate on their terms. Don’t let anyone or anything fool you into believing simplified depictions of black and brown life. Joy and togetherness is abundant.

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Gloria Anzaldúa, from the foreword of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, 1981

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لَا تُؤَاخِذْنَا إِنْ نَسِينَا

Do not punish us [O God] when we do wrong due to forgetfulness. (Surat al-Baqarah 2:286)

Source: flickr.com, via IslamicArtDB

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tender quotes:

1.  “The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” (mikko harvey, from “for m,”)

2.  “I still feel like the world is a piece of bread, I’m holding out half to you.” (eileen myles)

3. “Wherever you are it’s okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that’s not how it always looks. That’s not how it’s always going to look. There’s more. There’s always more.” (patrick ness, from “more than this”)

4.  “I was making dinner and I got a message. Go look outside, she said, go look at the sunset. My apartment is small, with four rooms and two windows that don’t see much light so I had no idea. I pulled my coat on and hurried out. I was running to this sunset, suddenly the only thing that mattered. I hurried past the taller buildings to the park and the sky was leaking shades of pink and purple. It was beautiful and fleeting, there one minute and gone the next. I would’ve missed it; I almost kissed it. And so I started thinking, how great it would be to get a nudge, a tap on your shoulder, a moment or two before your life changes. Stop what you’re doing and look around, you’ll want to remember this later. In a minute, you’re going to fall in love.” (kelsey danielle, from “unexpected sunset”)

5.  “Today is a day like any other: twenty-four hours, a little sunshine, a little rain. Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another―why don’t you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.” (mary oliver, from “black oaks”)

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“I wish they would only take me as I am.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

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Photos taken by me. Mood: 🎶 ”I Want You Around” 🎶 #SnohAalegra || Models: Amani Nicole & Andrei Villasin || indigostories.net

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Gion - Kyoto

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Viva la revolución, Lana H. Haroun

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Something from the archives | @maarz_m https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs0t2sygnGD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rywcxx95vzx6

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Yoo: I’m weird, only have two friends that I hang out with and my life is quite average

Yeong Gi:

[goawfma]

a story in three acts

[thecalminside]

“It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life….Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting.”

Yogananda