ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Context:
This entry is from a photo-essay I am working on titled “Names in the sand”. It is part of a piece of work that seeks to trace the identities and lives of modern day Laamb wrestlers, and how they navigate their ideas on modernity with the once preparatory exercise of war among the warrior classes of the Serer people. Among many things this piece of work also hopes to draw out some of the reasons why unlike many war rituals that have been long buried Laamb remains even more popular and is championed as a national sport among the Senegalese and Gambian people

When:
2018

Shot on:
Kodak Tri-x 400 35mm B&W film

Where:
Dakar,Senegal

Subjects:
Safara(fire) and an Unknown wrestler

AUTHOR
Suleimi Ahmed is an emerging artist, working primarily in medium format and 35mm film. Ahmed is a self taught photographer, drawn to the multiplicity of shifting identities in the context of culture and religion Ahmed seeks to create photographs that look to reconcile definitions of an inherited identity that both shackles and liberate our definitions of the past, present and future.

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