Photography Archives - Page 3 of 3 - National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

A-Figuration: Emerging artist Nowé Harris-Smith’s obscured figures on view at the NAGB

Nowé Harris-Smith, an emerging Bahamian artist, shows us her foray into reconciling the tension between two battling mediums; tensions between reality and the imagined, between the ideas of bodies as symbols of our individuality but also as unifying vessels of the universality of our human experience.

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‘Sponge Yard’ (c. 1870): The Colonial Photography of Jacob Coonley

Scraped up from the beds. Uprooted. Carefully picked and collected. Transported by boat. Beaten. Sun-dried. Clipped and polished. Sold to the highest bidder. The sponge industry of the colonial Bahamas as represented in Jacob F. Coonley’s ‘The Sponge Yard’, an albumen print circa 1870, shows neat rows of sponges laid out to dry, to be clipped, to have the animal remains eroded away by hours in the sun

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