Lady in red
Early morning lady in red on #Lido Beach, Somalia’s South Beach. Crowds get so thick on Thursdays and Fridays it’s difficult to walk. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
Month: February 2014
My Sweetest Little Granddaughter
My sweetest little granddaughter you ever saw was not all that happy to see me after I split for a month in Rio right after her birth. Lyla Maryanna cried when she first saw me!! Yet I shot a few pictures through the glass front door at Michelle and Bryan’s. I was on flu quarantine …
Michael Wilson – Pipe Coverer’s Ball
Michael Wilson Pipe Coverer’s Ball I am a photographer. I stand in front of things and hope. Looking for pictures. Listening for voices. This collection of pictures has come about by looking through roughly ten years of mostly overlooked and un-urgent pictures. Pictures untouched by the locust swarm of commerce obligation and timely …
Cesarean Section
A patient waits for a cesarean section. #Somalia suffers some of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Most women give birth at home and receive no prenatal care. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
A Nurse
A nurse scrubs in at Medina hospital in #Mogadishu. Throughout the war in #Somalia the city’s trauma hospital maintained neutrality, treating members of al Shabaab in the same ward as victims of their car bombs and IEDs. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
Somali Poet
Abdiqani, a young Somali poet records an ode to #Mogadishu at a local radio station. “I will never stop making poems for Mogadishu, I love it as a mother loves her only son.” The Somali language was unwritten until 1973, #poetry and the #radio are two bedrocks of life here. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
Falling Into Place: Self Portraits by Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Patricia sings as her husband Ed plays in a nightly ritual in their home in Detroit. Photo by David Alan Harvey Conversation with Patrica Lay-Dorsey Author of Falling Into Place: Self Portraits Detroit-based artist Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis in 1988. Twenty years later she turned her camera on …
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Pearl of the Indian Ocean
Upon #Mogadishu, pearl of the Indian Ocean. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
First photo, 4:30am in Nairobi
Hello! I’m Roopa Gogineni, a photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Thrilled to instagram this week for@burndiary, on assignment in Mogadishu making a photo and video portrait of the city and the people who call it home. I’ve been working in Somalia since 2011 when al Shabaab still controlled parts of the capital city. Nearly two …
