Tagged: black & white
BLACK HEART BLACK SOUL
Dancing kids, Coney Island 1996 © Jo Voets
Dancer and his doll taking a break, Grand Central Subway, 1996 © Jo Voets
Kids at the Caribean Festival, Brooklyn 1996 © Jo Voets
At the Caribean Festival, Brooklyn 1996 © Jo Voets
Friends, Brooklyn 1996 © Jo Voets
black and white
Esmeralda Machogo, dancer, Orlando (Soweto).
Mpho, dancer, Orlando (Soweto).
Sisipho, Kayamandi (Stellenbosch).
Joe Mogotsi, singer with the Manhattan Brothers, Diepkloof (Soweto).
Amanda, homeless, Bloemfontein.
Mohanoa Majele. The girl died on December 9 2006, aged 12. She was born HIV-positive.
Mrs. Majele, grandmother of Mohanoa, Botshabelo.
Bishop Cecil Shuping Dibe, Batho (Bloemfontein).
Vinolia, student, Bloemfontein.
Lefty Humphries, fashion designer and community facilitator, Jabavu (Soweto).
Retired teacher, Batho location (Bloemfontein).
Aaron Serumula, dancer, Soweto.
Mrs. Elisabeth Mnguni, Kamastone (Queenstown).
Sheila Mnguni, child of Elisabeth Mnguni, Kamastone (Queenstown).
Sizwe Mnguni, child of Sheila Mnguni, Kamastone (Queenstown).
Young girl, Ipopeng (Bloemfontein).
Young man at the Waterfront Mall, Bloemfontein.
Mpho ‘Shauny’ Majenge, software developer and entrepreneur, Bloemfontein.
NYC
Sidewalk, Little Italy, New York.
Roma Girls, Bucharest.
Boulevard Hassan II, Casablanca.
Juke Box, Beursschouwburg, Brussels.
Juke Box, Café Masui, Brussels.
Elvis and friends on Aurolac, Brancoveanu Park, Bucharest.
Elvis’ Shadow, Antwerpen Linkeroever.
Manhole Cover, Boulevard Baudouin, Brussels.
Donna con Gelato, Roma.
Gobbo Corno Portafortuna, Roma.
69 € well spent on “The Prototype Works” (Steidl) by American photographer Lewis Baltz.
All photographs © Lewis Baltz
Bucharest 2003-2004. A group of teenagers share their lives around the Brancoveanu subway station and the adjacent park. Many of them are orphans, unlike 16 years-old Rubi. Even if they are very fond of her, Rubi’s unemployed parents cannot afford to keep her at home. When the kids are not running errands for local shopkeepers, or begging, they kill time getting high on paint fumes. Their drug of choice, their ticket to a brief escape from hunger and an unforgiving world is Aurolac, a silver paint used in Romanian churches for the halos of the saints.
americana
Discovered the gritty black and white work on Mississippi blues culture by Bill Steber at Box Galerie in Brussels earlier this week. Also struck by beautifully dark prints from Louisiana photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery
© Bill Steber
© Debbie Fleming Caffery
© Debbie Fleming Cafferty
power play
Grand opening of the Dolphin Gym, Harlem 1996
Outsider it says on his headphones, but homeless Alix challenges the mechanical macho fearlessly, Coney Island, 1996
snake charmer
Foire de l’ Erotisme, Brussels
Jo Voets (photographer) 