Keisha continues to develop a body of work in photography, fine-art and writing. She draws on her interwoven layers of experience from the cultures and communities she's lived in West Africa. This complex journey re-built up from the relatively formal canvas square to which Keisha applies a dazzling mixture of found objects, personal possessions and painting.
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Keisha talks about the days of film photography and entrepreneurial ingenuity of the street photographers of Senegal.
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Keisha talks about her connection with the talibé and how they inspired her novel No Heaven for Good Boys.
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Keisha Bush was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School, where she was a Riggio Honors Teaching Fellow and recipient of an NSPE Dean’s Scholarship. After a career in corporate finance and international development that brought her to live in Dakar, Senegal, she decided to focus full-time on her writing. She lives in East Harlem.
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Here is a selection of pictures with Keisha and friends in Senegal. They were taken back when film cameras were being used, so these are scans of original paper prints.
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Keisha talks about the days of film photography and entrepreneurial ingenuity of the street photographers of Senegal.
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