On their recent journey to New York City, Papa Petit and Velma Rossa of the Kenyan style collective 2manysiblings met with Brooklyn-based photographer Kwesi Abbensetts for a street shooting.  Abbensetts , who hails from Guyana, has made a name for himself as an advocate of natural beauty and Afrocentric aesthetics.  Fragments of the collaboration have appeared on Tumblr, documenting the siblings’ …

The Kenyan duo 2manysiblings is back with the fashion & art project “Projected fragments” realized by Joseph Chege. Of all their work, this is the one I like the most – it really brings out the beauty and potential of Afrosartorial creativity. Enjoy!

This post contains theoretical annotations on photo-manipulation that I am collecting for a publication on retro-looking fashion photography. *** Digital photography is the main medium of dissemination of vernacular sartorialism and, by extension, of the afrosartorial aesthetic. Selfies are the currency of countless blogs that promote racial cool/beauty/pride (Pham 2015), while fashion blogging depends on digital photography to document emerging trends (Rocamora …