Students at Florida’s Bethune-Cookman College (1942) along with the school’s founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Photography by African American journalist, filmmaker, musician and poet, Gordon Parks. (See notes for more details…)
Mama Casset is a male Senegalese Photographer , who once in oblivion after blindness claimed his eyes
From the age of 12, Mama Casset learned photography with the French Oscar Lataque in Dakar then at the end of primary school he worked for Tennequin’s AOF Photographic Counter. It was in the French Air Force where he honed his talent by producing aerial photographs.
Mama Casset opened his private studio “African Photo” in the Medina in Dakar At the end of the Second World War,
Mama Casset was not content photographing bourgeoisie of Dakar, instead he produced a work which he describes as artistic. his muse and main model was his second wife.
Looking at a Mama Casset picture is to feel- the tchouraïs -, the back laughter or sadness, fortitude or weakness, sensuality. Mama Casset hunted for rare set pieces populated with staged very structured characters frequently shot in a diagonal tight frame , highlighting the expression of body position hands, eyes, place given to the costume, .
