Fine Print: Legba (Eshu) starting his journey to America from the beaches of Ouidah. Benin, 2016 Abbas Prints I am thus trying to

I am thus trying to depict the situation which many families in this region face

and there isn’t a single photograph in which he appears looking at the camera

three girls pose for a photo on East 100th Street in Harlem

capturing images of a segregated and racially-entrenched society

Fine Print: Legba (Eshu) starting his journey to America from the beaches of Ouidah. Benin, 2016 Abbas Prints I am thus trying toEs is one of the most enigmatic entities in the cosmogony of West African religions and he crossed the Ocean hand in hand with the the slaves to land in a new world where forced labour, lack of freedom and missionaries would force a transformation that lasts until today in the global understanding of African rooted religions. Midnight at the Crossroads documents and records these transformations and adaptations from its origin in Benin to Cuba, Brazil