A pertinent celebration of the power of community AkashaRabut
, a mesmerising portrait of the post-Katrina generation in New Orleans made over the past decade. “People here live everyday like it’s their last day and that’s beautiful to me. Everybody here is very friendly and there’s a real sense of community. We have a lack of infrastructure here and the people are the ones taking care of each other.”Rabut began making photographs while living on a Second Line parade route, seeing the splendour of the culture flourishing every Sunday.
“Second Line culture is about participation – you don’t go there to watch,” Rabut says. “People are selling liquor on the streets out of ice chests. Horseback riders are everywhere. People are riding motorcycles, burning out. The police are there but it feels like they are there to protect the Second Line.”
It was at the Second Line that Rabut met the Caramel Curves and the Southern Riderz, two local clubs featured prominently in the book, the former an all-female black motorcycle club, the latter a group of urban cowboys. She spent five years with each club, getting to know the women motorcyclists and the male horseback riders as friends and family.
Rabut also met the Southern Riderz at a Second Line. “There are black cowboys all over the United States: they’re in Philly, Baltimore, and Compton and they’ve been around for a long time,” Rabut says. “I think the ones in New Orleans are the luckiest because get to bring their horse out to a Second Line, dance to bounce music, and be out in the street. This city is so full of music, joy, and culture.
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