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Photographer: Nicole Battle
Model: Tiffany Okafor
Wardrobe Styling: Styles By UjjiB
Mua: Leontyne Ree
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Henry Peach Robinson, Little Riding Red Hood, 1858
1.’Her Mother having only one day made some cakes, said to Little Red Riding Hood, ‘I hear your poor old Grandma has been ailing; so, prithee, go and see if she be any better, and take her these cakes and a pot of butter.”
2. ”Who is there?’ said the Wolf. ‘It is me, your own little grandchild’, the artless little girl replied, ‘I have brought you some nice cakes and a little pot of butter.’ The Wolf, softening his voice as much as he could, said ‘Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.”
3. ‘Little Red Riding Hood then went and drew back the curtain, when she was much surprised to see how oddly her Grandmother looked in her nightclothes!’.
4. ‘Little Red Riding Hood hastened home to tell her mother all that had befallen her; nor did she forget that night to thank heaven fervently having delivered her from the jaws of the Wolf’
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Photographer Lassi Rautiainen recently captured the profound partnership between a she-wolf and a brown bear in the wilds of northern Finland. For days, he witnessed the strange pair meet every evening to share food after a hard day of hunting. No one knows when or how this relationship was formed, “but it is certain that by now each of them needs the other.”
http://focusonwildlife.se/
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“I don’t express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.”
–Mark Rothko, born today, September 25th in 1903 (left us in 1970).
Painting: Mark Rothko, Green Over Blue, 1956
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Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Untitled (Vodou Series), 2011.
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou’s photographs of the people of Porto-Novo, Benin (formerly Republic of Dahomey) are drawn from street life, his friends, family and studio customers. Benin is all about colour – Porto Novo is like a visual assault.In Leonce’s impressive portraits, wild combinations of locally designed Dutch imported textiles create extreme gradations between background, foreground, person and clothing. Leonce is part of a generation experiencing rapid change and his photographs capture the energy and unfettered zest for life of a people caught between tradition and progress.