Cloth, Colour and Meaning
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Cloth, Colour and Meaning

Photograph32 images KanifingWolof & Mandinka

What is worn, and what it says without speaking.

Indigo, wax print, damask and lace, photographed on the people who chose them and captioned in their words.

Occasion dictates almost everything: mourning, marriage, a first Friday, a homecoming.

The series includes tailors and dyers, whose vocabulary for colour is far larger than the market's.

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