Saturday afternoon Art
I finally made it down to see the photography exhibit "Somali Diaspora" by Abdi Roble, just before it closed. I feel that for the first time I understand what 'documentary photography' entails: careful attention to details, grouping pictures into a narrative, and capturing as much as possible the roles and personalities of the people involved along with evoking the settings they come from. (It's a lot like biography in these respects.) Here, we first follow a single Somali family from rural Kenya to California and finally to Portland, Maine, and then we get general views of much larger Somali communities in Ohio and here in Minneapolis, Minnesota.