Women Behind The Lens: I Envisioned These Slaves Whose Lives Were Exchanged For Indigo

Stacey Gillian Abes Indigogo project explores how the dye was used in the slave trade and how those enslaved people lost their identities In 2018, I ended a 10-year relationship and it left me broken. I became quiet and irritable I craved isolation and found myself putting up emotional barriers to avoid having to talk to anyone about it. It felt like Id never recover. Taking long walks has always been one of the ways Ive dealt with my emotional and mental state. On one of these walks around my home city, Kampala in Uganda, I discovered an abandoned warehouse. The building was in the heart of the city, among offices and factories, but seemed isolated and forgotten.