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Halima Abubakar-Idirisu

Photographer
   
Tribal Marks
Location: Kaduna
Nationality: NIGERIAN
Biography: Halima Abubakar-Idirisu  is a freelance documentary photographer, a researcher, archivist and visual artist with an insatiable interest in exploring culture and identity. She has a high level of credibility when it comes to her practice and... MORE
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Tribal Marks
Copyright Halima Abubakar-Idirisu 2024
Date of Work Mar 2018 - Ongoing
Updated Mar 2020
Topics Conceptual, Fine Art, Photography
Tribal Marks

Tribal Marks are intriguing and have an air of mystery surrounding them.
Growing up to see close relatives with marks, made me curious about them. I decided to take it up to demystify its complexities but first, give one to myself which lead to “beating” from my Mother.
This made me drawn to the lines, the angles, the spaces, the thickness, the depth, the imaginations, the reason they’re drawn, their meanings but most of all, the relationship each individual has with these marks and also, the impact they have made on them.

In each of these stories told by the individuals, are life’s lessons, love stories, memories told and untold, happy endings, big decisions and a rich cultural heritage that is fast disappearing which urgently needs to be documented and preserved for the future generation to learn from and cherish.
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