About ‘Portrait of a Mangbetu woman’ by Affect Fotografie
She isn’t looking at you. She is looking past you.
This is a woman from the Mangbetu people, photographed around 1920 in north-eastern Congo.
Her hair, styled like a crown, was a sign of beauty and status. Her jewellery, her posture, her gaze — everything speaks of a culture with depth and pride.
In the early 1900s,…
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Real encounters with people all over the world have attracted me from childhood. Traveling uninhibitedly unknown countries and continents and making contact with their residents. Those contacts with people in other parts of the world have taught me that the basic emotions of all people are the same. Unknown makes unloved? No, unknown makes me 'curious' about 'that other', the unknown. Establishing contact with people whose language I often do not speak…
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