What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.

—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965

Angelica Dass

Niki Kekos
June 3, 2019

Angélica Dass is an award-winning photographer born in Brazil and currently based in Spain. Her practice combines photography with sociological research and public participation in global defense of human rights. She is the creator of the internationally acclaimed Humanæ project. Her work has traveled to over 30 countries around the world, from PhotoEspaña, to the World Economic Forum (Davos), UN Habitat III, London Migration Museum, The Hague Museon, Lausanne Musée de l’Elysée, Dublin Science Gallery; to the pages of National Geographic, Foreign Affairs and other relevant media. In 2018, her TED Talk exceeded two million views.

Independent Photographer, Educator