Studio Abioto

The Acebook is a video portrait/installation project that I started on instagram in 2014. Using street documentation, journalism, poetry and the concept of beauty, I started this series after having left Portland, OR where there were so few people of African decent. When I returned to the east coast, I felt struck and in awe of our essence, style and expression. These video portraits were a way of capturing what I felt.

Video Portraits are moving images that capture individuals. There is little interaction aside from their posing or standing before the camera. It is a vulnerable thing that may or may not reveal a lot about an individual's essence.

- Kalimah Abioto

Hazuke and Phillippe

Kenya Nia, Philadelphia, PA

"I'd rather be known as anonymous." - Brooklyn, New York

"I work here at the park." - Nelson, Philadelphia, PA

"I really Like when People Get Me." - Rebecca, Washington, DC

" One of the most fulfilling jobs I've ever had is working at the oyster farm at Tamales Bay. It's where Romney and I cut our teeth with small scale oyster farming. I literally was alone with the trees and the ocean and the grass and the birds and the wind and all of that...I really have a passion for working outside. It's best for me."

-Steven Day
Memphis Native, Forensic Scuba Diver, Oyster Farmer, Restaurateur and Avid Learner

The Acebook is a video portrait/installation project that I started on instagram in 2014. Using street documentation, journalism, poetry and the concept of beauty, I started this series after having left Portland, OR where there were so few people of African decent. When I returned to the east coast, I felt struck and in awe of our essence, style and expression. These video portraits were a way of capturing what I felt.

Video Portraits are moving images that capture individuals. There is little interaction aside from their posing or standing before the camera. It is a vulnerable thing that may or may not reveal a lot about an individual's essence.

- Kalimah Abioto

Hazuke and Phillippe

Kenya Nia, Philadelphia, PA

"I'd rather be known as anonymous." - Brooklyn, New York

"I work here at the park." - Nelson, Philadelphia, PA

"I really Like when People Get Me." - Rebecca, Washington, DC

" One of the most fulfilling jobs I've ever had is working at the oyster farm at Tamales Bay. It's where Romney and I cut our teeth with small scale oyster farming. I literally was alone with the trees and the ocean and the grass and the birds and the wind and all of that...I really have a passion for working outside. It's best for me."

-Steven Day
Memphis Native, Forensic Scuba Diver, Oyster Farmer, Restaurateur and Avid Learner

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