spirit of fire & desire

*☆✧Messages from the stars✧☆* NOT A WOMEN BUT A LESBIAN!🕯️ Dreaming about you under the flamboyant tree 21+ !

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Recent portraits of cats I painted for people :]

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The Blue Bird, Konstantin Somov, 1918

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fatima mazmouz

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Yemanjá, Lady of the Waters, Emerson Rocha, 2026.

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8 Black Photographers to Know

Recently I was fortunate to work on Through A Lens Darkly, a documentary by Thomas Allen Harris focusing on the evolution and current state of black photography. 

The project features several icons of photography and art as well as emerging talent. Find a few below.

[click the artists’ names for their websites and more of their work.]

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Delphine Fawundu-Buford 

Sunset on the 9th Ward, New Orleans

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Lola Flash 

From [Sur]passing 

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Lyle Ashton Harris  

From Self/Portrait

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Dawit L. Petros

  Proposition 2, Mountain; Badwater, Death Valley, California

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Sheila Pree Bright  

From Girls, Grillz and Dolls

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Radcliffe Roye      

From J'ouvert: At the Devil’s Playground

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Lorna Simpson   

Waterbearer

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Deborah Willis

 Sometimes I See Myself in You, Progeny   

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*all photos owned by the photographers listed. no copyright infringement intended. 

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Lola Flash, Shigi, from the “(Sur)passing” series, featuring portraits that explore race and identity.

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The worse person yk has a blog where they speak about everything they’re too repressed to speak about in real life LMAO

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Lorna Simpson - 2 Tracks (1990)

[friedredclay]

Bobo, Mississippi, 1995. Photographed by Floyd D. Tunson.

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Fritz Klimsch - Akrobatin (1928)

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‘island life’ by dazed magazine, autumn 2021

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marble 'miraculous plunge' (commissioned by owner of victoria's secret) by barbara segal, 2013