We wish we had gotten Code Z running a few days earlier so we could have announced the August 6th opening reception of "She Shootin'!" at Harriet’s Alter Ego. The Brooklyn store-slash-gallery is currently featuring the photography of Nsenga and 5 other emerging Brooklyn-based photographers. [Full disclosure: Code Z editor Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is also repped in the show.]
Nsenga, meanwhile, continues to explore the subject matter that’s been slowly putting her on the map over the last few years: sensitive portraits mostly of black American Muslims and Caribbeans, as well as environmental abstracts drawn from similar psychological sources. Got that?
We’re noting Nsenga’s spiritual approach to photography. Her recent trip to Senegal included taking photos at the town of Medina Baye, Kaolack, which though it looks like a landfill (we hear), nevertheless attracts spiritual pilgrims from all over (see below).
Nsenga was featured in the Small Works show at NYU earlier this year (spotted by Jack Shainman) and is currently working on a project for the Museum for African Art in New York curated by Enid Schildkrout. Nsenga wants her work to witness communities that are seldom portrayed in any other way. Witness the work at Harriet’s Alter Ego until August 26th.
