Untitled: Girl with Brothers and Sisters

Shameless plug time for The Photomedia Center, which is featuring an outstanding collection of photography this month from Kerry Stuart Coppin, a photographer from Florida who has documented the "Rural Black Experience" in Africa (Senegal), and Latin America (Cuba).

As Coppin says in explaining the work, "When the national media addresses issues of race, particular to the Black African American experience, it often addresses only those large urban (North American) Black communities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. While teaching at Kansas State University, in rural Kansas, I came to recognize and appreciate a rural Black experience, significant in number, as diverse and complex as those in major cities, which has gone unrecognized and undocumented. And, even more significant, are the experiences of people of African decent in the rest of the New World. Virtually unknown and undocumented, for example, are the lives and experiences of an estimated 150 million persons of African ancestry in Latin America."

These pics are all from his experience in Senegal, and they are rustically beautiful. Great pieces of documentary photography that should give you something to chew on.

Speaking of chewing on, I'm going to help myself to a Tim Horton's donut now. Alas, they have made their way across Lake Erie from Canada to pollute my arteries.