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Posted: September 15th, 2008 | Author: kamau | Filed under: museums, photography | 2 Comments »

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Screenshot from “Cross River Nigeria” image series from Phyllis Galembo’s web site

Phyllis Galembo has an extensive series of portraits documenting the masks and costumes worn by priests and priestesses for religious rituals in Nigeria, Benin and in the diaspora from candomble in Brazil to voudou in Haiti. Her work is currently on show at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea.

MoMA: New Photography 2008, Mikhael Subotsky. The 2008 edition of the New Photography series at MoMA features new documentary work from South African Magnum photographer Mikhael Subotsky. “Beaufort West” features images inside and outside the prison of a small town in the Karoo Desert along the busy route between Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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