RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, photographer /curator
Ernest worked with Indianapolis-based performing artist Baba Khabir Shareef for the last seven years, and his recent passing both haunts and inspires us to be better children of God. Like our Baba, for decades, NYC-based documentary photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been celebrating the Muslim-inspired spirit of communities of the African diaspora that she also honors. Her “Cheikh Bamba's Tomb” is included in an exhibit closing today at BRIC that honors the Muslim experience, and that is why Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is our artist of the week.

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Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s “Cheikh Bamba's Tomb” (2014), Touba, Senegal. 
Things Unseen, From the Series, "Cleansing the Spirit" Zanzibar, 2017