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Art Subject: Face
El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Tabaquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley in Cuba.
In 1959 residents of Cuba were faced with a stark choice: stay on their island home and live as a “revolutionary” or leave. Some believed wholeheartedly in the new beginning, some were willing to be carried along and some abandoned everything they had and chose exile.
The Buena Vista social club...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Mujer De Santiago by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A woman of Santiago de Cuba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Assaita by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Afar culture in the town of Assaita. Many men spend the afternoons in loud debate in mud buildings and courtyards. Often with fistfuls of miraa leaves (ghat) and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fire of the Himbaby John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child l by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In the far north of Namibia as you head towards the border with Angola at Epupa Falls, barely visible tracks radiate off the main dirt road into bush and disappear across sandy, dry ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lakuru by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rendille warrior from Northern Kenya
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His subjects are lit with natural light and wear their day ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again.
Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Mukuru by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
The small settlement of Otjitando in Namibia’s Kaokoland doesn’t seem far off the main gravel road on the map. In reality it is a hellish journey that requires regular running in fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Woman by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire.
The C-t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Myngaby John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
For the Mumuhuila hair indicates social status. Hairstyles, like necklaces, change throughout a lady’s adolescent and adult life. For an adult like Mynga, the number of dreadlock str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nambuele by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
At the Heart of Huile by John Kenny - C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Mumuhuile woman from the Huile region of southern Angola.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
El Beso by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2004
Located in Coltishall, GB
A fleeting touch of the lips on a tango dance floor
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the moment.
The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Las manos by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photo with Float Frame 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancers during the Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguin Cuba.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Armonía by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of harmony… male with female, African with Hispanic… joined together in the dance that is Cuba.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and int...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Las manos by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancers during the Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguin Cuba.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people los...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Reflecciones by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photo with Float Frame 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of self-reflection in the School of Spanish Dance in the Gran Teatro of Havana.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
El Descanso by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
Each day the students at the School of Spanish Dance in Havana strut and twirl and leap across boards tin dance studios hat have seen better days. The da...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Las Palmas by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancer in the School of Spanish Dance in the Gran Teatro in Old Havana.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhyt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Son Morena Son by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2002
Located in Coltishall, GB
The all-female Cuban group Morena Son playing in Holguin.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the mome...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Bold Jewelry on Display in Ethiopia, Fashion, Horizontal, Portrait
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Untitled 9"
The distinctly preserved cultures of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia are featured in this print series titled Omo: Expressions of a People.
For this series, Drew received ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Son Morena Son by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Print with Float Frame2002
Located in Coltishall, GB
The all-female Cuban group Morena Son playing in Holguin.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the mome...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Platinum
Konbaki by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fula Shepherd by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fula shepherd, much younger than is perhaps suggested in this photograph, was walking through a small village with his animals in the searing midday heat of Niger. He was ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Tuareg Warrior by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg warrior from Mali.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in thei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Hausa and Fula Cultures Collide by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula girl as she was walking across the barren, sandy monotones of Niger’s Sahel. She was wearing an amazingly intricate arrangement of beads and a carefully craf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Amongst the Camels by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg man 80 kilometres north of Timbuktu in the desert camp of Essakane. He was wearing a beautiful red metallic turban characteristic of the Tuareg from this part of Northern Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Tuareg Vision of Intensity by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In January 2009 John Kenny went to the Festival of the Desert in Mali. The gathering of Tuareg musicians was, at the time, an annual event held in Essakane – about 100kms into the Sahara from Timbuktu,
This striking Tuareg man was walking through the beautiful white sand dunes with his camels. He was on his way to join groups of Tuareg watching the setting sun from the top of the dunes and to join in preparations for the next days camel racing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Behind the Great Mosque in Djenné by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fulani boy with his huge turban wrap was wandering through the backstreets of the great mosque in Djenne, an amazing structure which is the largest mud building on earth. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fula Shepherd Boy by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula shepherd as he was dragging three uncooperative goats towards a dusty livestock market in a remote part of Niger. As a Fula nomad this young boy would spend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lines that Lead to Perfection by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ydaco is from the Betammaribe culture in Benin. He lives in a small village in the Atakora mountains. His cheek bones provide the perfect surface for the beautifully intricate scarif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
The Fairground by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder photographed by John Kenny in Kenya.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Amuria by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a beautiful young Turkana woman photographed on the banks of Lake Turkana.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Mursi traditions by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Kedenye by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
Elder with a tale to tell
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lopayok by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana warrior
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Gumatoo by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny met this Gabbra woman on the road to Kolal in Northern Kenya in 2019.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Eture by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Pitali by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Sometimes a more practical hair arrangement is needed for warriors and braids are rolled into a net that is tied to keep the hair firm. Once the hair is long, a warrior will only sha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kolode by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lesirte by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Samburu warrior from Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Loicherua by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This warrior, like many of the Samburu, cares intensely about his appearance. There are two giveaway signs beyond the amount of jewellery he wears: a small pink pocket mirror, next t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ikulme by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This elder from a Rendille community in northern Kenya wears a typical bright coloured fabric wrapped around his body. It is essentially the same as the blanket-like ‘shuka’ worn by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Loile by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
The large circular earplugs worn by this stunning Rendille warrior are made of plastic and sometimes bone. In past times, and very occasionally today, you might see the same plugs ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ekerun by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder in Northern Kenya
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Inchoy by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
The steady gaze of Inchoy and her child.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fire of the Himba by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child l by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In the far north of Namibia as you head towards the border with Angola at Epupa Falls, barely visible tracks radiate off the main dirt road into bush and disappear across sandy, dry ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again.
Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natura...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Mukuru by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The small settlement of Otjitando in Namibia’s Kaokoland doesn’t seem far off the main gravel road on the map. In reality it is a hellish journey that requires regular running in fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Woman by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman from Northern Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Otjitando by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Nambuele by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
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