PHOTO CREDIT:
patrick's prayer
| kameelah/me, 2005 (cape town, south africa). this picture was taken in the khayelitsha township at the
baphumelele orphanage/children's home where i volunteered. i took this picture with my very first camera which was a bulky 4 megapixel canon powershot. this camera was later lost/stolen in the london heathrow airport, an unfortunate situation considering the loss of 400 images and video. mashaAllah. more pictures of khayelitsha here.

306/2009: i love her face.



this is a photo by spaceship george/kwesi abbensetts. his work is absolutely amazing. i love this woman's face. it is so textured and beautiful.

this encourages me to get back into portraits. faces are so amazing. i am so scared of self-portraits but i find the faces of others to be so heavy with meaning and narrative.

2 thoughts:

8:27 PM That Mash Guy said...

agreed. I took a great shot of a shoeshine in Cairo and ever since all I want to do is take pictures of people.

3:55 AM nurul huda said...

oh wow! she's beautiful. i love her expression as well. you're right about portraits. self portraits are rather hard for me as well. but peoples' faces never fail to fascinate me. especially those on the train. that expression of a liminal transit between thoughts.