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The Wooden Photograph

June 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

I exchanged the role of observer for that of storyteller. The task at hand was the synthesis of the hundreds of images created throughout the year of shooting, with memories of the family and my most striking impressions of Asha’s life

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 3D photograph, Asha Means Life, children, choreography, dance, dream, dreams, family, heirloom, milled photograph, monument, motherhood, photography, Unearthed, video, wooden boxes, wooden photograph

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The Birth of Earth

June 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

She danced almost until the moment of the birth of her fourth child . . .

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Asha Means Life, baby, Birthday, child, childbirth, children, choreography, dance, family, Florida, Know Thyself, labor, miami, Miami Dade, Michelle Murray, midwife, Mother, motherhood, natural childbirth, newborn, Now I Know, photography, pregnancy, pregnant, Sheila Simms, single parent, Son, Stephen Marley, Unearthed, water birth

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Asha Means Life: An Introduction

June 1, 2012 by Mariamma Kambon

In late summer 2011, I overnighted with Asha and her family while in transit to work on another project. I began snapping as Asha created pockets of order in the chaos that ensued the night-before-the-first-day-of-school. Weeks later, I realized there was an emotional charge to the images. Still nascent, the project “Asha Means Life” came into being with that moment. It features my mother’s namesake – a young mother herself, an artist and a Caribbean immigrant – and the visual […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Asha, caribbean, children, dreadlocks, family, identity, immigrant, miami, motherhood, photography, rasta, Trinidad and Tobago

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