#bboh

Bring Back Our Hermanity (BBOH) is a nude photographic narrative that was construed upon news of the mass abductions and massacres of young girls in Nigeria by the terrorist group 'Boko Haram'. It later became a reflection of the mundane injustices against all women and most specifically women of colour. Gang rapes and enslaved prostitution in the south of India; the violation of schoolgirls by teachers in South African schools; the commodification of female bodies for financial profit. The highly held perception by African men that women are tangible objects, independent of autonomous status. Women too, whether in counter-response, value themselves lesser than they should. And in turn, thwy value other women in a similar or lesser fashion. The above thus create a breeding ground for discontent, dissemination and contamination of the mind and the communal bond between women and their significant others. Thus allowing for a niche of distorted and incongruent perceptions of reality; of what women should look like; how women should speak; what women should wear.

   This photographic novel follows six women from different parts of South  Africa on a path towards the freedom of getting to know and further accept thyself as she was made. Of getting to experience the female body as not merely an objective and biological means to an end but as a living sculpture of the essence of life, love, strength, hope and beauty.