This Is How The Heart Beats
LGBTQ East Africa
Published on 26. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-62097-488-9 (ISBN)
Description
This Is How the Heart Beats is a portrait by acclaimed photographer Jake Naughton of a group of East Africans who have fled unimaginable abuse in their homeland for the United States, following this community from its darkest moments to an uncertain future. At a time of great uncertainty for both LGBTQ and refugee rights, this work illuminates the stakes for those at the center of a firestorm.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for This Is How the Heart Beats:"This Is How the Heart Beats is a hugely powerful, intimate series of images by photographer Jake Naughton that looks to raise awareness around the plight of LGBTQ people in the 32 African countries where same-sex relations remain illegal."
-Creative Boom
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
160 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 202 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62097-488-9 (9781620974889)
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Person
Jake Naughton is a photojournalist and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Atavist, BuzzFeed News, NPR, and VICE. The founding member of Black Box, a cooperative for visual documentary projects, he is based in Mexico City.
Jacob Kushner is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic, National Geographic, the New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He reports on migration and human rights in East Africa, the Caribbean, and Germany.
Jacob Kushner is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Atlantic, National Geographic, the New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He reports on migration and human rights in East Africa, the Caribbean, and Germany.