FARM (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, 1998-1999)
A proud woman in a field, her hand on her hip. Chipo is a farmer from Zimbabwe, a country plagued by political disorder. But Chipo’s gaze tells a different story. The story of rural areas where people work, who feel themselves inseparably bound with the land and feel buoyed up by the com-munity of which they are a part. Jackie Nickerson’s portraits combine simplicity with dignity and form a counterweight to the stereotyped picture of Africans as victims. These Africans live in des-perate circumstances , but their body language proclaims their strength, and their eyes their hope.
