Patrice had a good career in his native Cameroon, but couldn’t stand by as he watched his countrymen be oppressed, so he joined the political resistence. He was beaten and jailed, and eventually tipped off that he was about to be killed, so he came to the United States. For more than a year, he has been penniless and homeless, but after his story ran in the New York Times, he was offered a job opportunity in Texas. I’m doing a series of high-key portraits on commission to document some of the Neediest Cases. I made this one low-key for myself by not triggering the background lights. Other than the crop, this is a straight-out-of-camera JPEG, using the native black and white mode.
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