Sunday, July 01, 2007

Cote d'Ivoire Portraits



The top portrait is of a young girl in a small village outside of Adidjan, where I was photographing women working to process cassava, a starchy root crop. The second is a portrait of a cocoa pod filled with cocoa beans. I had no idea this is what the fruit looks look from where we get chocolate. You can actually eat the white flesh (the beans are inside) and it tastes delicious.

4 comments:

Michael said...

Is this natural light or did you bust out the lighting kit for these? Have you been able to use the lighting stuff much?

Z-Man said...

Must have been the cake pan "ring flash!"

Neemah said...

these were shot with available light, but I have been using my new lightning set-up frequently. no, i didn't bring the cake pan. what the hell was I thinking!

Robbie Hammer said...

Great Stuff Neemah. I'm jealous.