Photographer Honors Women Over 40 In New Series By Nancy Burns-Fusaro CHARLESTOWN — Charlestown photographer Amy Kristin Short intends to make a statement about women and aging. Sitting inside Amy Kristin Photography, her boutique photography studio on Old Post Road, tucked away on the first floor of one of Charlestown’s oldest houses, Short said she wanted to do something meaningful to mark Women’s…
BY SARAH SPELLINGS As a documentary photographer, Esther Ruth Mbabazi is tasked with sharing an unflinching look at reality, whether she’s turning her lens on the objects South Sudanese refugees brought with them to northern Uganda or children in the country affected by a mysterious disease known as nodding syndrome. The Kampala-based photographer is known for capturing her fellow Ugandans as…
By Jacqui Palumbo In Louisa May Alcott’s beloved book “Little Women,” which tells the story of the four spirited March sisters, Jo says of her younger sister Beth: “I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”The ineffable experience of girlhood,…
