Sankofa Video & Books Presents: The Virtual Release Chester Higgins' Sacred Nile Featuring Aida Muluneh

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SACRED NILE is a photography book about a river and how the ancient people who lived along its banks were the first to worship a God. SACRED NILE tells the story of our legacy of faith. In the divine Spirit of Oneness, God made us all, people of the Spirit. Dropping in October.

“Wrestling with issues of memory, place and identity, I see my life as a narrative and my photography as its expression. My art gives visual voice to my personal and collective memories. It is inside ordinary moments where I find windows into larger meaning. Light, perspective, and points in time are the pivotal elements I use to reveal an interior presence within my subjects as I search for what I identify as the Signature of the Spirit.”

-Chester Higgins

Aïda Muluneh’s stark, stylized portrait photography captures facts and fictions of postcolonial Africa. Wearing face paint and theatrical garments, Muluneh’s female subjects stand against bold, graphic backdrops as they conjure daily life and performances of gender and identity in the photographer’s home city, Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian-born artist lived in Yemen, England, Cyprus, and Canada before moving to the United States to attend college. After graduation, she worked as a photojournalist, a career that informed and fostered her fine-art practice.