Rasta Church in Bedstuy, Blessing

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A pigment print photograph depicting the Rastafarian community at the Brooklyn site of The Church Haile Selassie I, in the middle of a service. Captured within in the wooden pews on the side of church where the women sit, the priest presents an open book to a woman dressed in a white dress and headscarf, who bows to it. The priest wears a long gold robe with stripes of red and green on its sleeves, and a white long sleeve shirt beneath the robe. A woman wearing a white dress and pink headscarf holds a small child in her arms and stands in the aisle behind the priest and bowing woman. Two young girls, also dressed in white, the smallest one wearing an ornate red, gold and green headscarf – the other in a long white headscarf, stand in the same aisle as the priest, and face forward.

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