Purchasing Information
8x10, matted print: $50, plus shipping and handling
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Atabu Women's Development Association in Ghana.
To purchase a print, email Carolyn: cfryberger@gmail.com
In your email specify the photo title, the number of prints, and your contact information.
Cash or check only.
Make checks payable to Carolyn Fryberger
Photo Titles:
Selling in the Atabu Market
Winnowing Corn in the Atabu Market
Young Girls Gathering Medicinal Herbs
Nora in a Rice Field
Nora on her Family’s Farm
Mary with Freshly Dyed Batik Fabrics
Mary’s Shop
Through the Doorway
Celebration I, Dancing
Celebration II, Singing
Atabu Kids
Mamata Carrying her Niece
Celestine, with Kofi on her Back
A Family on the Road from Fodome Village to Atabu
A Discussion between Atabu Women
Pounding Aloe Vera
Baby Elizabeth, Napping on her Grandmother’s Back
Gladys gives Felicia her Morning Bath
Beatrice
An Old Woman in her Rice Field
Mama Vijela, Atabu’s Midwife, 88years old
Mary, Making a Gourd Rattle
Old Woman in Likpe Todome Village
Cutting Tomatoes
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Atabu Women's Development Association in Ghana.
To purchase a print, email Carolyn: cfryberger@gmail.com
In your email specify the photo title, the number of prints, and your contact information.
Cash or check only.
Make checks payable to Carolyn Fryberger
Photo Titles:
Selling in the Atabu Market
Winnowing Corn in the Atabu Market
Young Girls Gathering Medicinal Herbs
Nora in a Rice Field
Nora on her Family’s Farm
Mary with Freshly Dyed Batik Fabrics
Mary’s Shop
Through the Doorway
Celebration I, Dancing
Celebration II, Singing
Atabu Kids
Mamata Carrying her Niece
Celestine, with Kofi on her Back
A Family on the Road from Fodome Village to Atabu
A Discussion between Atabu Women
Pounding Aloe Vera
Baby Elizabeth, Napping on her Grandmother’s Back
Gladys gives Felicia her Morning Bath
Beatrice
An Old Woman in her Rice Field
Mama Vijela, Atabu’s Midwife, 88years old
Mary, Making a Gourd Rattle
Old Woman in Likpe Todome Village
Cutting Tomatoes
Artist Statement
Before being an artist, I am first a lover of people. To be in a new place is exciting not just for its sights, but for its people. What do they do? What do they like? What do they eat? What do they think about? Curiosity about people different from ourselves allows us to see beauty previously unknown to us. This past summer I was blessed to travel to Ghana for two months to volunteer in the village of Atabu in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. There I worked with a women’s group called the Atabu Women’s Development Association. These women, ranging in age from 15 to 50, were learning to make jewelry and soap in hopes that these skills might help to alleviate the poverty they and their families struggled with on a daily basis. I worked alongside them, learning to make soap and do beadwork myself, and in the process gaining small glimpses of the opportunities and constraints of the life of a Ghanaian woman.
The photos on display here are meant to give some recognition to the women that I was so honored to have met this past summer, to highlight their amazing physical and emotional resilience. Far too often the news we see and hear of Africa, particularly with regard to women, is very grim: reports of warfare, poverty, and environmental destruction. This suffering certainly exists throughout Africa, however I found that alongside it is an unassuming and overpowering beauty. Beauty and suffering, inseparable even in our own lives of relative material comfort. Depending on your perspective of a scene you can choose to see either; here I chose to frame the beauty. This in no way downplays the suffering, rather I believe it recognizes the humanity and power in a group of people too often seen as victims. It shows that despite difficult situations, people persevere and seek ways to express their full humanity. In this way, recognizing beauty becomes an act of empathy.
Carolyn Fryberger
October 2007
The photos on display here are meant to give some recognition to the women that I was so honored to have met this past summer, to highlight their amazing physical and emotional resilience. Far too often the news we see and hear of Africa, particularly with regard to women, is very grim: reports of warfare, poverty, and environmental destruction. This suffering certainly exists throughout Africa, however I found that alongside it is an unassuming and overpowering beauty. Beauty and suffering, inseparable even in our own lives of relative material comfort. Depending on your perspective of a scene you can choose to see either; here I chose to frame the beauty. This in no way downplays the suffering, rather I believe it recognizes the humanity and power in a group of people too often seen as victims. It shows that despite difficult situations, people persevere and seek ways to express their full humanity. In this way, recognizing beauty becomes an act of empathy.
Carolyn Fryberger
October 2007
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