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Photographer Kader Diaby’s sensitivity towards ephemera

A sullen look towards the camera, a veiled head….body painted in vertical lines along the edges…underexposure, a small fading —Kader Diaby’s series of photographs; Miria, iyé i yèrè gniniga evoke a deep gentle sadness. The Japanese have a term for this feeling; mono no aware —a transient sadness and a sensitivity towards ephemera. Miria, iyé…

OLOOH is ours, OLOOH is forever

Living through historical moments has the special ability to make us contemplate our own impermanence. The impermanence of even the most character shaping moments — by virtue of them being moments — is Time’s threat to our wilting bodies. Hence, the social construction of legacy. We want to believe that we, or an extension of…