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February, 2009
Robert Gardner is an artist, filmmaker and author. In 1978 he traveled throughout the Niger Republic filming a nomadic society known as the Bororo Fulani. The resulting film, Deep Hearts, documents the Gerewol, an occasion that brings two competing lineages together in a contest to choose the most "perfect" Bororo male. While filming, Gardner also began taking Polaroids of the men, but had to stop as their eagerness to possess their portraits began to distract from the event he was there to document. Beauty Contest presents the remaining 15 polaroids along side blank pages suggesting the void created by the incomplete series.
Robert Gardner is an artist, filmmaker and author. In 1978 he traveled throughout the Niger Republic filming a nomadic society known as the Bororo Fulani. The resulting film, Deep Hearts, documents the Gerewol, an occasion that brings two competing lineages together in a contest to choose the most "perfect" Bororo male. While filming, Gardner also began taking Polaroids of the men, but had to stop as their eagerness to possess their portraits began to distract from the event he was there to document. Beauty Contest presents the remaining 15 polaroids along side blank pages suggesting the void created by the incomplete series.
