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Pure Joy: Photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Captures Her First ESSENCE Festival Of Culture

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By Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a documentary photographer and photojournalist, my life has kept me on a perpetual global track. For years, when summer rolled around, I was simply out of the country. One year, I was attending intensive workshops in Cape Town. Another summer, I was conducting professional development workshops for local artists in Kampala, Uganda. Just last year, I was deep in Senegal researching the life of Omar Ibn Said for The New York Times.
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Opinion | The Wish to Be Seen

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By Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
| The New York Times Verified
Opinion|The Wish to Be Seen https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/opinion/slavery-memory-photograph-omar-ibn-said.html The first time I saw a photograph of Omar ibn Said, when I was a young photographer, I felt as if he was speaking to me. I took away one simple instruction: Remember. Born in 1770 in what is now Senegal, ibn Said was a member of the Fula people, a devout Muslim and a scholar. When he was 37, he was seized in a raid on his village.
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This Is What Black Women Are Voting For

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By Danielle Belton, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Marissa Leshnov, Nicole Buchanan
| MSN Verified
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