How an outsider captured the intimacy of Gullah Geechee life in 13 portraits
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s exhibit at the Whitney Museum depicts the rich culture of Daufuskie IslandIn Boiling Crab, Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, a photograph by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, a lanky Black boy stares squarely at the camera.The child, wearing a trucker hat and summer clothes, holds a canister of salt and stands over a pot brimming with crabs. Two older gentlemen on opposite sides of the vat tend to the upcoming meal, possibly uncles, a father and grandfather, or cousins. Continue reading...
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s exhibit at the Whitney Museum depicts the rich culture of Daufuskie Island
In Boiling Crab, Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, a photograph by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, a lanky Black boy stares squarely at the camera.
The child, wearing a trucker hat and summer clothes, holds a canister of salt and stands over a pot brimming with crabs. Two older gentlemen on opposite sides of the vat tend to the upcoming meal, possibly uncles, a father and grandfather, or cousins. Continue reading...
