
Photo by Jessica Antola
Photos by Jessica Antola
On a sartorial safari through the region, photographer Jessica Antola captured West African chic: complex head wraps, hand-spun accessories, and kaleidoscopic textiles with a story to tell.
Think of Jessica Antola as a chronicler of the world’s closets. She has photographed everything from Vietnamese street style to the urban runways of her home base, Brooklyn, New York. But with seven trips to Africa under her belt, it’s clear she has a particular love for the fashion of the continent’s many cultures.
On a monthlong road trip through West Africa, she was introduced to masked voodoo dancers in Burkina Faso, bejeweled women in Benin, royalty in Ghana—and the idea of fabric as a kind of currency.
Her photos, most of them impromptu shots, show those fabrics in their real-life settings.
Update: Jessica Antola published her first monograph, Circadian Landscape, on March 27, 2018. Read more about the book.
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