Art
DURBAR FESTIVAL DANCER, MEPE GHANA
- Item Number
- 109
- Estimated Value
- 1420 USD
- Opening Bid
- 75 USD
Item Description
A wounded soldier dances during the official celebration of the Durbar festival in Mepe, Ghana. The Durbar festival is an annual homecoming for all the members of the Ewe tribe. The festival features a long procession through the town by all the chiefs and the members of their clan.
Lori Waselchuk, 2000
Est. Value of Print: $400 | Frame: $1,020.00
Frame Info: Antique frame with silk
Item Special Note
Lori Waselchuk is an award-winning documentary photographer whose photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide. She has reproduced photographs for several international aid organizations including CARE, the UN World Food Program, and Médecins Sans Frontières. Waselchuk's work is exhibited internationally and is part of museum collections including the South African Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art.
Waselchuk's monograph, Grace Before Dying (Umbrage Editions NY), tells the emotional story of a hospice program in Louisiana's maximum security prison where both the patients and the caregivers are incarcerated.
Waselchuk is a recipient of the 2012 Pew Fellowship for the Arts, the Aaron Siskind Foundation’s 2009 Individual Photographer Fellowship, a 2008 Distribution Grant from the Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Institute, the 2007 PhotoNOLA Review Prize, and the 2004 Southern African Gender and Media Award for Photojournalism.
PRINT SIZE: 20X24"
Framed by Gold Leaf Studios.
This photo will also be available at our event on October 17th. Proxies are available for those unable to attend. Winners will be notified the morning of October 18th.
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