Fine Print: Legba (Eshu) starting his journey to America from the beaches of Ouidah. Benin, 2016 Burt Glinn

Fine Print: Legba (Eshu) starting his journey to America from the beaches of Ouidah. Benin, 2016 Burt GlinnEs 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

we can sense a shift in Sanguinetti’s relationship to the cousins and the work they make: from insular childhood collaborators to three women with lives branching in different directions

prior to the founding of the agency

” The fact is

The portholes’ light is dancing on the walls and behind the thick glass

Barbey has traveled all over the world

To conjure the right mood and emotions

capturing families that had embarked on the dangerous journey to the United States

On April 26

400 American lives by the end of the first day

The First March of Gentlemen

one does not quite know if we look at painstakingly composed arrangements or a private photo-diary

my mother [born in New York to Jewish immigrants] got a letter from a relative in the Soviet Union we didn’t know existed