KaliMa Amilak is an Afro-Caribbean photographer native from Brooklyn, New York. They have exhibited artwork in various galleries in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, including BatHaus Gallery, SOMArts Cultural Center, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Richmond Arts Center, The San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and published in AFROPUNK. They were also awarded the Jan-Hart Schuyers Artistic Achievement Award at The Art of The African Diaspora at the Richmond Arts Center in 2020 and was interviewed with Bay Area Art Beat. While their main focus is the celebration of black women and black people through self-empowerment and liberation, KaliMa is a versatile photographer with experience in live-action performance art, event photography, sports photography, portraiture, and editorial photography.
This submission of this project comes from a recent series, "Chrysalis," which is a poetic photography series where KaliMa explores the complexities of what its like to internally reset in order to grow during a time of an internal and external transition in response to the pandemic through haikus.
